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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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- One-Day Loop After Three Uber AttemptsAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Apr 2026Offer
I didn't prepare for Amazon alone. What I brought into that loop came out of several earlier tries and a long stretch of studying. I went after Uber three separate times before this. The first time I got through only 1 of the 4 interviews, the second time 3 of 4, and the third time 2 of 4. By the time Amazon rolled around, I had put in plenty of hours grinding LeetCode-style problems. The thing t…
- Two Back-to-Back Virtual Onsite RoundsAmazon · Data Scientist · Intern · Onsite · Apr 2026In progress
This interview was purely a case of getting lucky. I got the interview invite on 4/12, then had two VO (virtual onsite) rounds back to back on 4/22, with no break in between. Both interviewers held PhDs. VO1 Standard LP (Leadership Principles) questions, and then they dug into a lot of detail based on my answers. Tell me about a most recent project Calculated risk A time you needed to extend a de…
- Four Rounds Ending with a Bar RaiserAmazon · Software Engineer · New Grad · Technical Screen · Mar 2026
round 1: behavioral questions + coding Behavioral questions: a time you made a decision with incomplete information; a time you disagreed with a teammate or your manager and how you handled it Coding: Given an array of strings, group together all words that are anagrams of each other and return the groups. The interviewer also asked me not to use the O(n·k log k) approach with sorted signatures.…
- OA in April, Offer After Four VO Rounds in JulyAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Mar 2026Offer
Mass-applied at the end of January. Got the OA at the end of April: Coding question 1: there's an original version of this on the forum — a circular array of drone destinations (first and last connected end to end), find the shortest path. Coding question 2: AI debug. I picked Java. The problem was an actor + movie website. Roughly the functionality: users can follow actors, and an admin can add…
- An Assisted VO With BQ and Two Coding QuestionsAmazon · Data Engineer · Onsite · Feb 2026
Last week I ran an assisted Amazon virtual onsite (VO) interview for someone else. It was a behavioral round plus two coding questions. First, the behavioral part: How do you handle difficulties at work? When your team runs into difficulties, how do you encourage them and come up with a way to solve the problem? Why did you choose Amazon? Then the coding part. Coding 1: You're given an array of s…
- Coaching a Mock VO With BQ, Morse Code, and a Word Break II Follow-upAmazon · Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern · Intern · Onsite · Feb 2026
Last week I ran a mock/practice VO (virtual onsite) session for someone prepping for their Amazon interview for the 2026 SDE intern role. It was BQ plus two coding questions. First, the BQ part: How do you handle it when you run into difficulties at work? When your team runs into difficulties, how do you motivate them and come up with a way to solve the problem? Why did you choose Amazon? Then th…
- Two Back-to-Back Rounds, BQ Plus OOD and a Course Schedule TwistAmazon · Software Engineer · Intern · Onsite · Feb 2026
The Amazon intern interview was pretty classic. The two rounds were back to back, one hour each. The BQ part asked pretty classic stuff — mainly 3 common conflict scenarios, one dive deep, and one out-of-responsibility question, plus a relatively new question about using generative AI. There were quite a lot of follow-ups overall, but basically none of them were especially technical — my feeling…
- A Sparse Sliding Window Over Infinite BagsAmazon · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jan 2026
The first online-assessment question was set in Amazon's financial team. An analyst had an infinite line of bags numbered from 1 onward. Information about the money in the bags was given as continuous, nonintersecting segments. Every bag inside a segment held the segment's stated amount, while every bag outside the supplied segments held zero. The goal was to choose exactly k consecutive bags tha…
- A Topological Sort the Interviewer Drew on the SpotAmazon · Software Engineer · Intern · Onsite · Jan 2026
Round 1's interview and timeline are covered in a separate link, so I won't repeat that here. The interviewer described the question verbally: Amazon has a ton of services, and there are dependencies between them. When we take some of those services offline, figure out which other services end up affected. Clarifying questions: always, always do this first — get the conditions of the problem comp…
- BQ Plus Two Coding Questions in One Virtual OnsiteAmazon · Software Engineer · Intern · Onsite · Jan 2026
I interviewed for an Amazon intern VO (virtual onsite) last week — it was BQ plus two coding questions. I've done a lot of Amazon intern interviews by now, and I'd already seen writeups for the other rounds and the OA before this one. A few of the BQ questions were ones I'd seen before. First, the BQ part: How do you handle difficulties at work How do you encourage your team when they hit a diffi…
- Four Onsite Rounds, Rejected After the System Design RoundAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Jan 2026Rejected
Timeline: referral, then a recruiter call two weeks later that set up the phone screen for a week after that, then the onsite (four rounds) a week after that, and a rejection two days after the onsite. Overall impression: the coding difficulty wasn't that high, basically all LeetCode Medium, and every round asked Leadership Principles (LP) questions. I think what got me in the end was System Desi…
- L5 Technical Screen, Rejected Over the BQ RoundAmazon · Data Scientist · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Jan 2026Rejected
In 2026 there have been almost no Amazon DS interview write-ups here on 1point3acres — I'm starting to wonder if they're on a hiring freeze. I'm writing one up so people have something to reference. Around mid-March I had applied to 2 AS (Applied Scientist) roles. A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and scheduled a recruiter call a few days later. On that call they told me AS roles are most…
- Robotics Charging Logic and Package DimensionsAmazon · Software Engineer · Intern · Technical Screen · Jan 2026
I read a lot of interview reports here while preparing, so now I'm giving something back, especially since there seem to be so few Amazon Robotics posts. I interviewed in March this year for a summer 2026 internship. Two rounds, one hour each, both behavioral questions + LeetCode. Make sure to prepare the Leadership Principles well. Behavioral questions took half an hour in the manager round. Be…
- Team Matching Before Two One-Hour InterviewsAmazon · Software Engineer · Intern · Technical Screen · Jan 2026Offer
Behavioral (after OA): This year, there were two interviews, each 1 hour long. They team matched before the interview, so I ended up getting an offer under the team that interviewed me. Interviewers were the manager of that team and an L5 SWE (SWE II, one above entry level), both consisted of a technical leetcode-style question, then behavioral. Manager spent more time on behavioral, SWE spent mo…
- Onsite Loop for the Grand Challenge Health-AI IncubatorAmazon · Machine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Dec 2025
Grand Challenge is Amazon's internal incubator, similar to Google X — in fact it was founded in 2014 by Babak Parviz, the former Director of Google X. Right now it's mainly focused on applying AI to healthcare, and the project is highly confidential outside the team. That said, the interviewers and the hiring manager were warm and friendly, and the overall experience was positive. The interview h…
- Passed the Tech Screen Despite an Unfinished Graph QuestionAmazon · Applied Scientist · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Dec 2025In progress
An Amazon recruiter found me on a job site and had me apply for a senior applied scientist role. The recruiter met with me first and walked me through the general shape of the tech screen — ML breadth plus coding. ML Breadth. The interviewer was pretty nice. This part asked a lot of fundamental questions, like: 1) What is a p-value? 2) What is overfitting and underfitting, and how do you address…
- Phone Screen ML Deep-Dive Then a Five-Round OnsiteAmazon · Machine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Dec 2025
Phone Screen Part one was ML knowledge. The interviewer basically didn't ask about basic definitions — the whole thing revolved around digging into my project. From model selection to training details to evaluation, every answer just led to another follow-up. Typical questions included: how did you do evaluation for your model? Which metrics did you use? Why did you choose them? What are the math…
- 90 Minutes Covering System Design, RL, and a Graph-Cycle Coding QuestionAmazon · Machine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2025
Basically felt like going into battle with my head already wrapped in bandages, wounded before I even started. It was originally scheduled for one hour, but it ended up running an hour and a half. The coverage was extremely comprehensive: 1) First, a self-introduction covering the projects I'd done, but with a bit of a science-breadth angle mixed in — this took 3-5 minutes. 2) Right after that ca…
- Five Rounds Split Across Two DaysAmazon · Data Scientist · New Grad · Onsite · Oct 2025
Amazon DS new grad interview experience. Five rounds total — the first round was a screening, and the other four were split across two days, two rounds each day. Of the five rounds, one was pure behavioral (BQ). The interviewer's title was Spec. Principal Sales Rep, and they asked "tell me about a time when you..." style questions the whole way through. Since the interviewer was a non-tech audien…
- Passed the Technical Loop, Now in Team MatchingAmazon · Data Scientist · Intern · Technical Screen · Oct 2025In progress
I'm a third-year PhD student in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, working in Finance, Public Finance, and IO. I applied to Amazon pretty late this year, and since I was extremely busy this semester, I took the last possible deadline at every stage. I finally got the email confirming I'd passed the final technical interview on April 10, and I'm now officially in the team-matching phase. I w…
- SQL, Analytics Case Studies, and Two Straight Rounds of Behavioral QuestionsAmazon · Business Intelligence Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2025
Amazon BIE final round interview summary Round 1: Visualization: Introduce the dashboard you built, explain which visualizations you used, and explain why you chose them. Analytical: Suppose you're the manager of a delivery station. In the past you manually assigned packages to delivery drivers, and now you need to build a model that automatically assigns package quantities. What data and methods…
- Technical Screen With ML Basics and Leadership Principles QuestionsAmazon · Data Scientist · Technical Screen · Oct 2025
Behavioral questions The questions the interviewer asked were fairly simple, roughly like this: Give me a story where you have limited time to finish a project Give me a story where you actively learn a new skill (Learn and Be Curious) Give me a story (where you showcase "Bias for Action") Give me a story (where you showcase "Ownership") I felt like while interviewing me, the interviewer might ha…
- Two Case+BQ Rounds, No Coding This YearAmazon · Economist Intern · Intern · Technical Screen · Oct 2025In progress
During this application season I also interviewed for the Amazon economist summer intern role, so I'm writing up my experience here to share with anyone who needs it. Timeline: Mid-January 2025: had a senior refer me 03/04/2025: HR reached out 03/26/2025: first round 03/28/2025: got the email that I passed the first round 04/16/2025: second round 04/16/2025: two hours later that same day, heard I…
- Five Rounds, No Breaks, and a Gum-Chewing Hiring ManagerAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2025Rejected
Just finished interviewing this week. Not a great experience. The whole process was rocky — I got re-matched to a different team several times, and there were two months between the phone screen and the onsite. Security & Service org. It felt like they just wanted to go through the motions, not like they actually wanted to hire me. Round three with the hiring manager was especially bad — I've nev…
- Five-Round L6 Onsite, No Breaks, One Rough HMAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2025Rejected
Just finished interviewing this week. Not a great experience. The whole process was rocky — I got switched between teams for matching several times, and there were two months between the phone screen and the onsite. Security & Service org. It felt like they wanted to go through the motions without actually wanting to hire me. The third round with the HM in particular was a really bad experience,…
- Recruiter Gave a Last-Minute Ultimatum for the Only Onsite SlotAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025
I still don't know why they gave me SDE1 despite having 1.5 years of experience. The recruiter was toxic — no response the day I reached out, and then the next morning, before I was even out of bed, they called me and said there was only one interview slot available, and if that didn't work for me they'd just reject me. So I basically got pushed into it with no time to prepare. I interviewed last…
- Two Online Assessment Questions on Calorie-Maximizing Jumps and Password SimilarityAmazon · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Sep 2025
Question 1: Problem description: A user is doing jump exercises using an Amazon fitness tracker. There are n blocks of different heights (height[i] is the height of the i-th block). The user starts from the ground (height 0) and must jump to every block exactly once, with the goal of maximizing calories burned. The calories burned jumping from block i to block j are calculated as (height[i] - hei…
- Two Rounds and a Verbal Offer Tied to Internship LengthAmazon · Front End Engineer · Intern · Technical Screen · Sep 2025Offer
OA outcome: I solved both algorithm questions (passed all the test cases). For the behavioral part after that, I just went with my own gut feeling — the work simulation section was mostly about logic, and I hadn't looked at Amazon's Leadership Principles beforehand. Interview experience: The interview experience was really good — the interviewer was warm and respectful, and gave a lot of hints an…
- Virtual Onsite with BQ, an OO Ticket System, and a Recommendation EngineAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025
This was a virtual onsite. The interviewer told me right away that he'd be taking a lot of notes, so I shouldn't read too much into it. BQ section: The first question was on "Ownership" — he asked if I'd ever run into something that wasn't technically part of my responsibilities but I went ahead and took care of it anyway. The second was "Deliver Results" — he asked for an example of delivering s…
- a Vague LockingTree Screen That Ran LongAmazon · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2025
I interviewed for L6 last Friday — I'm probably 80% sure I failed. It was with the Aurora team, and the interviewer ran the whole thing. The interview was scheduled for one hour, but I got tortured for an hour and a half. Right off the bat the guy spent about 10 minutes introducing himself, then had me talk about a time I both challenged and simplified a system — the scope needed to be big enough…
