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Amazon Interview Experiences
3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: video-supported online testAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
I started with recruiter outreach and an initial online step. The assessment used video support and examples of the reasoning and approach they wanted, so it felt less about memorization than about how I structured my thinking. After I cleared it, I had short, focused technical interviews before the final round was scheduled. Later conversations explicitly covered networking, troubleshooting, aut…
- Amazon Business Analyst interview experience: expected SQL that never cameAmazon · Business Analyst · Jun 2026Rejected
The process initially sounded as if it would cover SQL and behavioral topics. Once the interview started, however, it stayed entirely behavioral and scenario based. I expected a live SQL assessment, but it never materialized. Communication afterward was poor. The recruiter did not reply to my follow-up emails, and an automated rejection notice arrived a couple of days later. The interview itself…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer four-round coding and leadership loopAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
After an online assessment, I entered a deliberate loop meant to assess both coding and engineering judgment, with leadership principles throughout. The loop had four rounds: two coding interviews, a behavioral conversation built around Amazon Leadership Principles, and a hiring-manager round with another coding problem plus a high-level design discussion. One coding round started with a medium p…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer interview experienceAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
Recruiter outreach turned into a marathon. After the initial steps, I was scheduled for an onsite-style block of back-to-back interviews. I did four rounds in one day with senior engineers, followed by additional conversations about leadership and design. The day opened with coding and problem solving. For DSA questions, the interviewer cared about how I explained edge cases aloud. In one interva…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: coding, design, and Leadership PrinciplesAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026Rejected
This Amazon process felt like a full technical deep dive rather than a quick screen. After applying, I had multiple live rounds combining coding, system design, and detailed behavioral questions about Leadership Principles. The coding work required more than an optimal LeetCode style solution. I had to explain my thought process, edge cases, time and space complexity, alternative approaches, and…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Java Spring Boot debugging loopAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
After a recruiter call, I had a technical phone screen of about an hour with practical engineering questions. Once I cleared it, I entered the loop. The loop combined coding, systems thinking, and Amazon Leadership Principles. I solved LeetCode-style problems, discussed system design, and completed a STAR-format behavioral round. In one round, I used an AI-enabled setup to debug code in a Java/Sp…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer interview: OA coding and leadership assessmentAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
I received the online assessment about a week after applying, before any loop interviews. It took longer than I expected because it packed in a lot, including video material explaining the kind of reasoning and approach they wanted. The OA had standard coding challenges focused on algorithms and data structures, along with a leadership-assessment component. I had heard that leadership principles…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer technical loop with leadership-principle bar raiserAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
After a recruiter conversation, I had a roughly hour-long technical phone screen. Once I cleared it, the process moved into scheduled loop interviews. It was structured, but intense. The loop combined coding with Amazon-style leadership discussions. I had two coding-heavy sessions: one began at medium LeetCode difficulty and another went into harder territory. There was also a system-design discu…
- Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer Interview Experience: a one day loopAmazon Kuiper Commercial Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
After an online assessment, I entered a full loop packed into one intense day. It had the kind of Amazon structure I expected: multiple coding rounds, design, and a deep behavioral bar raiser. The first coding round began with a warm-up before moving to a practical meeting-intervals DSA problem. I used a heap, then had to think through reassignment and idle time in a follow-up. A later round pair…
- Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA, OOP, and DBMSAmazon Kuiper Commercial Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
I started with an online assessment and then moved into a short, dense interview sequence. There was no HR phone screen for me. After applying, the assessment came first and scheduling moved directly into the loop. The loop had three rounds focused on data structures and algorithms, basic OOP, and DBMS concepts. Leadership Principles also appeared, and I had an HR interview mixed into the process…
- Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer Interview Experience: Two same-day technical roundsAmazon Kuiper Commercial Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
I started with an online assessment, then completed two technical rounds over Zoom on the same day. Each technical round lasted about an hour. The pace was intense because I had to code in an online editor without predefined test cases while explaining my reasoning. After my introduction, the first round included two tasks on data structures and algorithms and behavioral questions about tight dea…
- Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: long OA waitAmazon Kuiper Commercial Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026No response
My process began with an online assessment that took a long time before interviews started. After I submitted it, I moved into interviews built around coding patterns and Leadership Principles. The technical side leaned on LeetCode-style questions, while leadership themes stayed prominent. Based on what I had heard about common topics, I prepared stories around Customer Obsession, Ownership, and…
- Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer online assessment and four-round loopAmazon Kuiper Commercial Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026In progress
After an online assessment, I had a recruiter touchpoint and entered the loop roughly a week later. The loop had four rounds: two coding-focused interviews, a bar raiser round, and a separate discussion about fit with another team. The coding work combined algorithms and design. One round was LeetCode style, and the other was system design. Leadership Principles were a repeated theme, so I discus…
- Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: LRU cache implementation detailsAmazon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
After I cleared the initial steps, I had a phone-screen-style discussion that ran longer than expected and went deeply into implementation. The interviewer pressed me on an LRU cache: how I would combine a hashmap and doubly linked list, and how eviction would work. System-design examples on eviction policies had helped me prepare, so I could explain the reasoning instead of reciting a solution.…
- Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: maximal square and good nodesAmazon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
I interviewed for an SDE1 role at Amazon. The early process centered on DSA and, after applying, I went through two technical rounds with different coding challenges. The first included maximal square and merge intervals, which called for DP or matrix reasoning and careful interval manipulation. In the second, the questions shifted to something like counting good nodes in a binary tree, so I was…
- Amazon Software Engineer interview: AI coding assessmentAmazon · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
My Amazon process began with online tasks before the more traditional interviews. The DSA portion used something like a house-robber II problem, so it felt more focused on dynamic-programming trade-offs than a simple brute-force solution. The assessment also had an AI-based coding round. I was given a code repository and an AI model with guardrails, then had to work from failing test cases to und…
- Amazon Software Engineer interview: brain teasers and OA rejectionAmazon · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026Rejected
The process began with online recruitment quizzes or an OA, and those early steps set the tone. One path was packed with brain-teaser-style questions that did not match the job I was applying for. It made the process feel disrespectful of my time. In another attempt at the same general funnel stage, I submitted OA solutions and received a rejection a few days later. That assessment was more typic…
- Changing Requirements in the LLD Round and a Distributed Cache DesignAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Other · Jun 2026
I've been applying to SDE-2 roles at MAANG-tier companies for the better part of a year, and it was rough going. I collected plenty of instant rejections right at the start, and that made it clear I had to prepare much harder. On the DSA side I mostly stuck to the LeetCode Premium MAANG checklist. My LLD prep came from Medium articles and YouTube channels. Reading past interview experiences for t…
- Distracted Interviewer Nitpicks a Binary SearchAmazon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
First off, the interviewer was 30 minutes late. The scheduled time was already inconvenient, and then he pulls this on top of it. He started by going over my resume, and we talked for over half an hour. The interviewer was obviously distracted the whole time, kept asking me to re-explain things I had already explained, and wasted a lot of time going back and forth like that. Then out of nowhere h…
- Five Onsite Rounds, LPs Woven Into Every OneAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026
Preparing for Amazon took me a good amount of time, and threads on this forum helped a ton, so I'm back to turn in my homework. Before I get into it: the biggest difference between Amazon and other companies is that Leadership Principles aren't a separate round — they're baked into every single round. Across my five rounds, every one of them started with twenty to thirty minutes of LP questions b…
- Prime Video Network Engineer Interview Experience: opaque online tasks without an offerPrime Video · Network Engineer · Jun 2026
After applying, I went through something that did not resemble a traditional interview. I was told I would be "successful" after completing a set of tasks, but the process mostly involved online work, watching videos, and answering questions. There was no clear, standard interview to prepare for in the usual way. Feedback itself came fairly quickly. A few days later, I got an email saying I had b…
- Prime Video Software Engineer Interview Experience: broad fundamentals and leadership themesPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
The process had a looping structure. It began with an online assessment, then moved through data structures and algorithms, basic OOP and DBMS concepts, and Amazon leadership principles. There was also an HR interview and a low-level design component, so the process covered a broad mix rather than one narrow subject. I learned about the steps as things progressed. The leadership-principle part st…
- Prime Video Software Engineer Interview Experience: high-pressure coding and design roundsPrime Video · Software Engineer · Other · Jun 2026
I began with a LeetCode-style coding round and solved two DSA problems, one medium and one hard. I had to explain my thinking, cover edge cases, and give time and space complexity. The interviewer kept asking about alternative approaches and the trade-offs behind them. Next came system design. I worked through a problem resembling a scaled Amazon-style service and discussed API design, data model…
- Prime Video Software Engineer Interview Experience: leadership, coding, and system designPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
After applying, I completed an online assessment and then spoke with a recruiter. About a week later, I entered an onsite loop. From the assessment through the final decision, the process took roughly a few months. The loop had multiple back-to-back rounds in one day, mixing technical and behavioral evaluation. Early on, the bar raiser focused on Amazon-style leadership principles. I used STAR-st…
- Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA screening and technical loopPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jun 2026
The Prime Video process opened with a conversation about my resume and experience, then moved immediately into technical work. The first serious step covered mid-to-hard DSA: dynamic programming, matrix-related problems, and graph questions. They wanted to hear the approach I planned to take before I started. The screening and loop followed what felt like a standard order. The phone interview was…
- Prime Video Software Engineer interview: LRU cache and evictionPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026Offer
My first real screen ran longer than expected and went deep into implementation. I was asked to design an LRU cache using a hashmap and doubly linked list while keeping eviction correct. The interviewer was direct and kept probing my approach, especially the eviction behavior and the reasoning behind it. The rest of the process added more technical depth along with behavioral interviews connected…
- SDE I New Grad Loop in Canada, Offer the Monday After the Final InterviewAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026Offer
Hey everyone! I recently graduated with a CS degree from a school in Canada (I'm an international student) and ended up with an SDE I offer from Amazon. Here is how the process went, hopefully it's useful to somebody. Timeline My application went in during the last days of January 2026. Nobody referred me. In early April the online coding assessment arrived in my inbox, and I sent it back after t…
- A Bar Raiser and Three Coding RoundsAmazon · Software Engineer · New Grad · Technical Screen · May 2026
R1: Bar Raiser The first interview was the Bar Raiser. It contained only behavioral questions and no coding. R2 Coding: Minimum Point Consumption Across Multiple Programs Problem description A user has points from different programs, such as airline miles, credit-card points, and store points. Each program has a different redemption rate, and the rates change daily. The user wants to pay a fixed…
- A Month of Recruiter Ghosting Before One Chaotic Phone ScreenAmazon · Applied Scientist · New Grad · Technical Screen · Apr 2026Rejected
3/13 - recruiter call scheduled, system email assigned recruiter 1 3/15 - rejected, me: ??? 3/16 - recruiter call with recruiter 2, very nice person, said I could set up a mock interview with them, we scheduled a time, then they ghosted 3/17-4/13 - I kept providing my availability, kept hearing "does not meet team calendar," this kept repeating... 4/14 - recruiter 2 was out of office, recruiter c…
- Four Onsite Rounds From Ride-Hailing System Design to a Pub/Sub OOD QuestionAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Apr 2026
Phone Screen Coding: Merge products by category. Given a bunch of tuples representing two products being in the same category, with transitivity, find how many categories there are in the end and the size of each group. Classic Union-Find — I solved it with BFS instead and it also passed. Onsite (4 rounds) System Design: Design a ride-hailing app. The core focus was on high-frequency GPS writes f…
