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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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- Alien Dictionary and One Costly Indentation BugByteDance · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
The problem was Alien Dictionary. I expected the interviewer to ask about my background in detail, but the interview opened directly with a LeetCode problem. I knew how to solve this one, but I could not write it bug-free. I eventually found that I had indented a break statement in the wrong place. I managed to get my own test to pass before the interview ended, but the interviewer's feedback was…
- ALTEN Belgium Software Engineer Interview Experience: business manager interview never happenedALTEN Belgium · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
The process began with HR reviewing my profile, contacting me, and arranging an introductory call. That conversation covered the basics and gave me the main information about the role and process. I was then scheduled to meet the business manager. The frustrating part was the scheduling. The business manager interview was postponed several times because of the manager's commitments, and it ultima…
- ALTEN Belgium Software Engineer Interview Experience: Four steps from recruiter to contractALTEN Belgium · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
After the recruiter stage, the process followed a clear four-step rhythm. It began with a short introductory call about my background and fit. About a week later, I had a semi-technical remote interview that assessed how I could operate in the role without trying to trap me. Next came a more complex remote technical interview with the client. It was more serious and detailed but remained professi…
- ALTEN Belgium Software Engineer interview with one-week profile checkALTEN Belgium · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
The interviews felt intentionally light. I got the sense they wanted to confirm that my profile matched what they needed rather than test technical depth. The early conversations were about fit and discussion more than whether I could do the job at a technical level. The process moved quickly. I first had a phone contact to validate my profile and discuss salary, then spoke with the responsible m…
- ALTEN México Software Engineer Interview Experience: HR call followed by four postponed manager interviewsALTEN México · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
After my Almalaurea profile was reviewed, HR contacted me. We had a straightforward introductory call where they explained the main information and context. Then we tried to schedule an interview with the business manager. That step became the problem. The business-manager interview was postponed four times because the manager could not find availability, and it never happened. It felt strange be…
- Alten Software Engineer Interview Experience: business manager meeting repeatedly postponedAlten · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
After an initial review of my profile, HR contacted me for an introductory call that mainly collected the basic information. They scheduled an interview with the business manager, but it was postponed several times and eventually did not happen. The atmosphere felt relaxed and more about alignment than a concrete evaluation. Rather than deep technical questions, I had the impression that they wan…
- Alten Spain Software Engineer Interview Experience: Business meeting postponed four timesAlten Spain · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
After they reviewed my profile through Almalaurea, HR contacted me for an introductory call and explained the main information. A meeting with the business manager was then arranged, but it was postponed four times because of commitments and ultimately never happened. Overall, the process seemed simple and mainly bureaucratic. They appeared to be checking whether I fit the profile without asking…
- ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer Interview Experience: business-manager postponementsALTEN Technology USA · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
I started with a recruiter conversation about my background and what would come next. The process then moved toward a business-manager meeting about my experience, skills, learning, and fit for projects. In the easier versions of the process, I didn't see a deep technical evaluation. It felt more like checking alignment with the profile and overall motivation. The usual sequence was an HR call, a…
- Amaris Consulting Software Engineer interview with .NET and AngularAmaris Consulting · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
After a recruiter call, I went through an organized and transparent process. The early stage covered my background, then I met the team manager for a technical conversation about .NET, Angular, problem solving, and how I communicate and collaborate on past projects. The tone stayed friendly and professional, and I got timely feedback after each stage. I had manager and technical interviews, then…
- 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…
