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Amperity interview questions

6 practice questions in the style of Amperity's interviews, covering Behavioral & Leadership, System Design, Software Engineering Fundamentals, Coding & Algorithms.

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Amperity interview questions by the numbers

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Katkat has 6 Amperity interview questions. The largest topics are Behavioral & Leadership (33%), System Design (33%) and Coding & Algorithms (17%). By difficulty: 67% medium and 33% hard. The most common round is Technical Screen (67%). Frequent concepts include Communication, Leadership, Behavioral and BFS.

Topics

Difficulty

  • Medium67% · 4
  • Hard33% · 2

Interview rounds

  • Technical Screen67% · 4
  • Onsite33% · 2

Roles

  • Software Engineer100% · 6

Frequent concepts

  • Communication33% · 2
  • Leadership33% · 2
  • Behavioral17% · 1
  • BFS17% · 1
  • Cross-functional17% · 1
  • Data Structures17% · 1

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  • Bring Nontechnical Stakeholders On BoardMedium

    Tests your ability to translate technical initiatives into business value, build cross-functional consensus, and demonstrate measurable adoption with nontechnical stakeholders.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen
  • Design a Metrics Collection SystemMedium

    Design an end-to-end distributed metrics collection and monitoring pipeline capable of ingesting millions of data points per second, handling label cardinality risks, and supporting low-latency time-series queries.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerSystem DesignTechnical Screen
  • Design an Online SQL Query Service over Apache Iceberg TablesHard

    Design an online service that runs user-submitted SQL statements against data stored in Apache Iceberg tables. Covers the query lifecycle and API, metadata-driven planning with snapshots and manifests, distributed execution, multi-tenant admission control, commits for writes, and table maintenance.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerSystem DesignOnsite
  • Implement the Core of MinesweeperHard

    Design an object-oriented Minesweeper game engine featuring state management, board generation, flood-fill cell revealing, and testable boundaries.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
  • Render Overlapping Rectangles on an ASCII CanvasMedium

    Render bordered and filled rectangles onto a fixed ASCII canvas, clipping safely and honoring input-order overwrites. Handle negative coordinates, fully hidden shapes, one-cell dimensions, trailing spaces, overlap behavior, and a canvas of up to one million cells.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • Resolve a Difficult Project ChallengeMedium

    This question assesses a candidate's ability to navigate complex engineering challenges by demonstrating a structured approach to problem-solving, stakeholder management, and iterative execution.

    AmperitySoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen

Amperity interview experiences

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  • Long Loop, Good Rounds, Then SilenceAmperity · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026
    Rejected

    This company's interview process is seriously long and miserable. The HR keeps calling you without any heads-up, which feels like harassment. After the interviews they disappear for no reason, even though every round went well. My guess is that they do a back-channel background check behind your back. One of the interviewers is close with a PE in my org, so they probably went and asked him. Our P…

  • Two Phone Screens, Five Virtual Onsites, and a Company Going All-In on FDEAmperity · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Apr 2026

    I don't think anyone's posted about this company here — it's probably too small to be on anyone's radar. The pay HR quoted wasn't great either. Phone Screen 1 Coding: given a width and height, draw a rectangle in ASCII, with different characters for the border and the interior. Second part: draw a series of rectangles on one canvas, and handle overlap plus rectangles that go outside the canvas. I…

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