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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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- Amazon Account Executive interview: behavioral stories and Leadership PrinciplesAmazon · Account Executive · HR Screen · Jul 2026
After a recruiter screen, I had interviews about my previous experience and behavioral examples, with situational and problem-solving questions mixed in. Communication was clear, and the panel was approachable, which made it less intimidating than I expected. The conversations were about how I worked, handled situations, and made decisions rather than intense technical drills. Amazon Leadership P…
- Amazon Account Executive interview: STAR answers under strict timingAmazon · Account Executive · HR Screen · Jul 2026
My process mixed structure with friction. I went through multiple stages centered on behavioral evaluation, with questions mapped to Amazon Leadership Principles and answered in a STAR-style format. In one phase, I worked through tasks with others and found it hard to finish everything on time, especially while collaborating with people I did not know. Across the rounds, interviewers wanted detai…
- Amazon Account Executive interview: strict behavioral calibrationAmazon · Account Executive · Other · Jul 2026
The first call set a hard tone. It felt as though the interviewer had very strict expectations: if an answer was not perfect, or was even a little off, the message was that I would not be a fit for the role. Even with that pressure, the process followed a recognizable behavioral format. The questions were tied to my experience and to how I had handled prior situations. The atmosphere shifted betw…
- Amazon Advertising Customer Success Engineer interview: leadership and coding loopAmazon Advertising · Customer Success Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
After applying, I completed an online assessment before scheduling began. The early part felt fairly straightforward: a mostly technical phone step came first, then I moved into a loop after clearing it. I spoke with several interviewers in the loop, where technical problem solving sat alongside Amazon-style leadership discussion. The loop included coding, system design, and a bar raiser. The cod…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: A four-part OA with AI-assisted debuggingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
I started with an online assessment in four parts. First was a 40-minute HackerRank coding test with standard DSA questions. Second was 60 minutes of AI-assisted coding in a project-repository environment, where I had to trace a simple bug, such as why a request was not committing to the database. The available options included Node.js, Springboot, C++, and Django. Third came 30 minutes of workpl…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: an intern assessment and teamwork questionsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Intern · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
The process began with an online assessment combining coding and aptitude questions. After passing it, I was invited to one or two technical interviews on data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and general problem-solving. The final round included behavioral questions about communication, teamwork, and fit for a software development engineer intern role. It felt as though they…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: an online coding interview after a hackathonAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
An Amazon Hackathon led to an online interview. The interviewer was friendly and approachable, and we began with a basic introduction. The coding felt medium in difficulty and followed the format I'd expected when moving from a hackathon to an interview. I didn't get an offer, but the process was straightforward and the tone stayed positive. I'd call the overall difficulty average. Feeling comfor…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview experience: coding and leadership principlesAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
I began with an online assessment that had one data-structure coding question and an AI coding question. Then came four interviews. Two combined data-structure coding with leadership-principles discussion, another paired low-level design with leadership principles, and the bar-raiser-style round was leadership principles only. Leadership themes came up even in rounds that otherwise felt technical…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult DSA and web debuggingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
The online assessment was rough from the start. The first LeetCode-style problem was manageable, but the later questions quickly reached medium to hard difficulty. I completed the first, brute-forced the next, and never reached the third. Later rounds stayed heavily focused on DSA. One used hard, ad-hoc graph problems. Another asked me to debug a web app with a very limited AI assistant. It could…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: four technical interviews with adaptive follow-upsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Other · Jul 2026
The process was organized, and recruiting communicated clearly throughout. Scheduling went smoothly apart from one interview I had to reschedule because of an interviewer emergency. The final set consisted of four technical interviews covering data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, system design, and behavioral questions based on Amazon's Leadership Principles. The interviewers w…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: leadership principles in a virtual loopAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026
I spoke with a recruiter and, about 90 minutes later, completed an online assessment with two coding problems. A few behavioral prompts were built into that assessment, and even then I was thinking about Amazon Leadership Principles while solving. The virtual onsite was four back-to-back rounds of roughly an hour each. It included a two-question LeetCode-style coding round with one hard and one m…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Medium coding under a compressed but supportive scheduleAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
My process began with a thorough, tightly paced phone interview. Segments ran back to back. I first worked through two medium LeetCode questions, each followed by probing about how I approached the problem end to end. Then I did workplace-style behavioral questions and a quick personality-type check about how I work and where I see my strengths. What stood out was the interviewers' tone. Even wit…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: missed interview and disputed absenceAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
My interview fell apart because of a scheduling failure, not because of my answers. One interviewer never arrived. I told the recruiter and recruiting team, and provided evidence that I had been there, but I was still accused of missing the interview. I declined to reschedule and raised my concerns. After that, I was ignored and felt effectively blacklisted. The experience felt harsh and unfair b…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Sliding window, binary search, and debuggingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
After completing my OA, I moved into a live technical screen with LeetCode-style problems. One used sliding-window logic and another used binary search. There was also a leadership-expectations conversation where I described a time I debugged an error: what went wrong, how I investigated it, and what I changed to prevent it from happening again. The pace was quick, so I had to stay with the main…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Streams and rate limitingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
My process focused on data structures and low-level reasoning, with leadership and workplace questions alongside them. There was no bar raiser, so it felt less like a large gauntlet and more like direct technical checks plus LP questions. The OA included simulation-style grouping and sorting. In live interviews, I worked on finding the median of an integer stream and the K most frequent elements…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Time-boxed debuggingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026Rejected
The memorable part of my process was a take-home-style coding and debugging assignment. It began with HackerRank-like tasks in about 40 minutes, followed by a debugging section. In one version, I spent about an hour fixing an unexpected API-call behavior in a repository-style project so every test would pass. It was difficult because it resembled real work: I had to find why a larger codebase did…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview experience: written problem-solving stageAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Other · Jul 2026Rejected
The first test was assignment-like and covered a broad mix: Java depth questions, React, SQL, and some DevOps. After my first round, there was also a paper-based written problem-solving step. I was rejected at that written stage. I had traveled a long way for the interview and did not feel ready enough after dealing with the timing and logistics. With more than 40 hours spent traveling, I was not…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: ambiguous practical programming taskAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
The questions were practical programming prompts rather than textbook-only coding. The first was fairly trivial math. The second was interactive: I had to work out what the interviewer wanted, then implement several functions to make it work. That second task stretched me because it required clarification and interpretation. I had to check my understanding early and keep iterating until the imple…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: delayed New York onsiteAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
After the OA, I waited about three months before Amazon Advertising invited me to an onsite in New York. The onsite was condensed into back-to-back rounds: SWE-style interviews followed by a managerial round. The long delay cost me some momentum before the loop began. Once it started, the technical conversations were straightforward, and the manager-adjacent discussion looked at how I would opera…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: DSA and work styleAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Other · Jul 2026
The on-campus process had two standardized rounds, each with a live DSA coding problem and Amazon work-style questions. The coding was assessed for correctness and for how I reasoned about time and space complexity. The behavioral part used Leadership Principles such as Ownership, Bias for Action, and Customer Obsession. Those prompts followed a 'tell me about a time' format, so I answered with S…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: four mixed technical and leadership roundsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
I had four one-hour rounds that combined behavioral questions with technical work: behavioral, low-level design, DSA, and an AI-focused behavioral and DSA round. Amazon Leadership Principles appeared throughout rather than as an afterthought. The DSA portions used classic LeetCode-style problems. One technical conversation also went into networking, with follow-ups that deepened each answer. I us…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: four-round loop and bar raiserAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
After clearing the initial step, I entered a loop with multiple back-to-back interviews. It was the most intense part of the process. I had four rounds, each combining behavioral questions with a technical component, except for one that leaned behavioral-only as a structured readout of how I would operate. The technical topics included strings, priority queues, and object-oriented design. A bar-r…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: large project under artificial time pressureAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
The interview felt deliberately brutal and high-pressure. The format was streamlined, but it mixed behavioral and technical questions with an artificial time constraint, something like 60 minutes for a massive project. It felt designed to see whether I would break under pressure and matched the reputation I associated with a high-attrition hiring model, even though the process itself was not chao…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: linked-list final after codingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026Rejected
I cleared an initial coding round by solving two questions, then moved to one technical interview lasting about an hour. That interview had a single linked-list question, and the setup felt straightforward compared with the earlier assessment. I was still rejected. What stayed with me was how quickly one problem became the final decision. There was not much room to recover from even a slight mism…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: open-ended behavioral loopAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
My interview had two distinct parts. One leaned more behavioral than I expected, and another was a LeetCode-style technical question. The behavioral prompts were situational. Instead of asking for polished, closed-form answers, they asked me to explain how I would think through open-ended scenarios. Communication became central because it felt like they wanted my reasoning, not just a final concl…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: STAR examples, coding and debuggingAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
I passed an online assessment combining coding with behavioral questions about Amazon Leadership Principles. The next interviews used an in-person-style format over video. The first focused mostly on leadership principles, my experience and previous projects. Toward the end of the loop, I worked through a system-design coding problem and had more hands-on technical discussions with engineers. I e…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: STAR stories and two design questionsAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
I started with an online assessment containing two coding problems, one more algorithmic and the other more mathematical, plus a short work-style survey. After I passed it, I had a phone interview focused entirely on behavioral questions. I used STAR to describe past experiences and had to be deliberate about setting up each story, explaining what I'd done and giving the results. After that scree…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: streaming design and difficult DSAAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
After applying, I went through several rounds that felt tough and uneven in difficulty. One was described as architect-level, and I did not get far overall. There was no real warm-up: the early technical work already tested deeper experience rather than fundamentals. One interview asked me to design a streaming application like a major video service and explain the architecture and system decisio…
- Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: Two Sum and substringAmazon Advertising · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026Offer
The process began with an OA containing two DSA questions and behavioral questions. One was an easy Two Sum-style problem; the other was the medium problem of finding the longest substring without repeating characters. I then had one interview with two more easy-to-medium DSA questions. The live round followed the same pattern: use familiar techniques cleanly under time pressure and explain the r…
- Amazon Business Analyst interview with SQL and business caseAmazon · Business Analyst · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
After the assessment, I was invited to an initial screening. The interviewer asked three SQL questions, then moved into a deep-dive behavioral segment with about two or three questions on the same theme. A business case study was also part of the flow, so it was neither pure coding nor only storytelling. The process felt structured and relevant to the role. The SQL questions were the most concret…
