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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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- ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer Interview Experience: Word Search II, House Robber, and OOP designADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
My interview ran across two days, with two rounds each day and about an hour per round. Because the content varied by interviewer, it did not feel completely scripted. Round one had two leadership-principle questions and Word Search II. I started with a fixed grid size, then had to explain how I would handle a grid whose size was no longer fixed. Round two was only leadership-principle questions.…
- ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer Interview Experience: workday simulation and three final interviewsADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
My loop began with an OA HackerRank round. Within two days, I had a second round that became a workday simulation. I pretended to be an Amazon SDE and talked through decisions about issues that come up in that job. It was less about producing a lot of untested code and more about how I would handle real-world tradeoffs and choices. The final stage was three back-to-back one-hour interviews, each…
- ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer interview with book system designADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026Offer
I had a face-to-face loop with four rounds. It began with two DSA questions, one on binary search and one on binary trees. Next came an LLD round where I designed a book management system, followed by a hiring-manager round and a leadership round. The leadership questions were closely tied to leadership principles, and those themes also came up in the technical rounds. I received an offer. My ove…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: confidence intervals alongside DSAAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
After resume shortlisting, I completed an OA and two virtual interview rounds. The process focused on DSA, gen-AI discussion, and my projects. The DSA work leaned toward arrays, stacks, and subsequence-style problems, with behavioral questions mixed into the sessions. One tightly timed part had probability and statistics estimation questions. I had to give the answers and say how confident I was…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult communication and teamwork evaluationAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
The process felt organized and professional from start to finish. The interviews covered my technical background, software engineering experience, problem solving, and communication. The interviewers were friendly and seemed interested in how I would work on a team as well as what I could build. The questions went beyond puzzle solving into judgment, collaboration, and explaining my thinking clea…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Director, product, and bar raiser sequenceAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
The process was structured and tightly scheduled, with several human checkpoints. It began with a pre-interview screening with a hiring manager, followed by a recruiter screening call. Then I had an engineering-director discussion, a senior-product-owner conversation, and a senior-software-engineer round. After those came two bar-raiser style interviews and a final hiring-manager interview. By th…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA, low-level design, and leadership principlesAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
My process had four rounds. I began with DSA, then had two low-level-design rounds. One of those LLD conversations included gen-AI best practices, which was an unexpected addition to a systems-focused design interview. The final round was entirely about leadership principles and behavioral questions. Leadership-principles questions also appeared in the earlier technical rounds, so coding, design,…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: graduates OA with extreme first-task timingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
I received an OA invite for a graduates program, and the timing was extreme. The first programming challenge had such a reduced window that I spent much of it reading and understanding the prompt rather than building a solution. The second test was more reasonable. The experience was very difficult for me, and I did not move forward to an offer. The bottleneck was not only coding ability. It was…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: OA score before resume discussionAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
My process began with an OA covering DSA and aptitude questions, followed by a technical interview with two easier DSA questions. I solved those questions, then discussed my resume and a RAG-model project I had built. The OA was the difficult part for me. Its questions threw me off even though they were not presented as extremely hard. My score was low enough that I did not progress from the OA,…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: progressive DSA OA and split Zoom interviewAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
After applying, I received a virtual OA with several DSA problems that began easy and became much harder at the end. It felt like a test of endurance and correctness. The Zoom technical interview had a 30-minute LeetCode-medium coding segment followed by a 30-minute behavioral segment. I had to switch quickly between writing and discussing past work. The difficulty felt average. I did not receive…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Three coding questions and system designAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
I began with an online coding test, followed by HR questions soon after I submitted it. Then I went into an in-person technical round. The in-person session was heavier than the initial screening. It included three coding questions and system-design topics. That caught me off guard because it was not only a DSA evaluation. It also tested how I would structure broader technical thinking. The proce…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: three mixed coding and behavioral roundsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
My process began with an online assessment. After it, I had a loop of three one-hour interviews. Each round mixed coding and behavioral questions, so I could not separate the technical work from the leadership conversations. The coding felt easy to medium for me, and the behavioral prompts were woven into the same sessions. I left with a strong sense of what they were evaluating: how I thought th…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: two DSA problems with live complexity explanationAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
After a recruiter touchpoint, I had a virtual one-on-one technical interview with an engineer. It opened with a quick introduction and then became pure problem solving. I solved two separate DSA problems on a shared coding platform. As I worked, I had to keep talking and explain time and space complexity. That made the session about showing my reasoning in real time, not simply writing code. The…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Two timed DSA questionsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Aug 2026Rejected
I was given two DSA questions with 30 minutes for each. As I worked through them, I was also asked about the time complexity of my solutions and how I could optimize them. I did not make it past the first round, so I could not continue further. The difficulty felt high mainly because the timing pressure gave me little room to recover when a solution did not click as quickly as I wanted. No offer…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with back-to-back DSA roundsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
I had two back-to-back interviews, first with a hiring manager and then with an engineer from the team. Each lasted about 60 minutes. For roughly the first 15 minutes, I answered behavioral questions, and the rest was DSA. That split made the mental switch obvious. I had to move from narrative examples and decision making to DSA problem solving for most of each session. The process felt difficult…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with five final interviewsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
My process began with a recruiter screen and then a one-hour technical screen split between behavioral questions and coding. It immediately tested whether I could communicate while solving. The final loop had five interviews. In the first three, I solved data-structures-and-algorithms problems in a shared coding environment while explaining my approach, then answered behavioral questions about Am…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with linked-list screenAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026Offer
I was glad I went through the Amazon process, even though I eventually declined the offer. The phone screen began with two easy technical questions: reversing a linked list and explaining the difference between TCP and UDP. The final round included a behavioral question about project ownership. I felt more prepared because I had access to a company-specific question bank on PracHub, and my confid…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with three coding problemsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
The Amazon interview split its emphasis between coding and leadership principles. I handled three coding problems: two medium and one hard. They assessed correctness, data-structures-and-algorithms use, code quality, and how clearly I explained my approach. The behavioral questions focused heavily on leadership principles. I used STAR to set out the situation, task, actions, and result, with meas…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with two-day four-round loopAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
After an OA, I reached an intense four-round loop that ran over more than two consecutive days. The coding included two LeetCode questions, one easy question numbered 680 and one medium question, plus an object-oriented design interview. The other rounds were more behavioral. One was entirely behavioral and lasted about an hour. Across the loop, it felt like they were evaluating both problem solv…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: bamboozling OA and mixed loopAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
I started with an online assessment before moving into an all-live-interview loop. The OA was the first real shock. The questions did not feel impossible, but I got completely bamboozled and did not get far enough to move to the next step. The loop itself had about three rounds of roughly an hour each, mixing coding and behavioral questions. Coding felt easy to medium for me, but the behavioral s…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: Book management and delivery-system designAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
My final interviews were face-to-face and covered several technical lenses. I had DSA questions, a low-level design round to design a book-management system, and a leadership and behavioral discussion tied to Leadership Principles. The technical rounds put a lot of weight on explaining trade-offs while coding and designing. One design prompt resembled an LRU cache, while another resembled an Uber…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA complexity and leadership principlesAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
After the recruiter step, I had a one-on-one virtual technical interview with an engineer. We moved quickly from small talk to two DSA problems on a shared coding platform, and I had to state time and space complexity as I worked. The broader loop was technical first with Leadership Principles throughout. It included multiple DSA-focused interviews, low-level design, and a dedicated leadership-pr…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: leadership-focused virtual ladderAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
I went through an extended interview path that felt like climbing an organizational ladder. After the initial recruiter screening, I had virtual rounds with senior engineering leaders: an engineering director, a senior product owner, and a senior software engineer. Amazon's Leadership Principles were a major part of the loop. The Bar Raiser was a distinct stage, and I could not treat the behavior…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: OA versus live DSA roundAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
The OA mixed classic DSA with aptitude-style material. The coding problems ranged from easy upward, and there were also statistics-and-probability questions, including estimation tasks that moved quickly and made me question how confident I was in my answers. The live interview felt lighter and more straightforward than the OA. In the technical round, I solved two easy DSA questions on a platform…
- Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Interview Experience: onsite loop with STAR follow-upsAmazon Development Center U.S. · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
My process ran from recruiter submission to HR questions and then an onsite-style technical loop. The onsite included several live coding segments, system design, and behavioral questions about how I would work in the role. Each round mixed categories. Alongside live coding, I discussed system-design tradeoffs and architecture beyond implementation details. For behavioral questions, I used STAR s…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: back-to-back behavioral and DSA sessionsAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
My loop had two back-to-back sessions that were intense but well paced. Early in the first session, the interviewer focused heavily on behavioral stories, then the rest moved into DSA problem solving. The second session followed a similar structure, so I had to alternate between explaining my approach and demonstrating it through coding. I had time to solve DSA questions in each session, but the…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA, system design, and GenAI projectsAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
The process was clear after the initial recruiter coordination. After applying, I had an online coding test on a coding platform, followed quickly by HR-style questions and then a face-to-face technical round with a mix of topics. The technical part drove the process. I had multiple coding questions, including DSA-focused work, and at least one session that combined system design with coding. Acr…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: exhaustive leadership and product loopAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
The journey involved many people, each testing a different angle of the same skill set. Before the main loop, I had a recruiter screen and a pre-interview check with the hiring manager. I then had technical and product-adjacent conversations with an engineering director, a senior product owner, and senior engineers. The final stretch included Bar Raiser-style interviewers and a hiring-manager con…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: Mid-60s score on the OAAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
The online assessment was the hardest gate for me. I had applied earlier in the summer and moved forward to the OA near the start of August. The coding questions threw me off. They did not seem impossible, but I struggled enough to score around the mid-60s overall, and that ended the process for me. From what I saw, people who cleared the OA went into a short, structured technical loop with codin…
- Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: timed OA with debugging and work hypotheticalsAmazon DSP · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
The online assessment was where I really struggled. I received an invitation to an OA for graduates, and the first programming task had an absurdly short time limit. A large part of it went just to reading and understanding the question. The second test was more reasonable, but the first hurdle had already changed my pace. In a similar OA setup, there was a standard DSA test, an AI-assisted codin…
