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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: STAR stories and two design questions
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: streaming design and difficult DSA
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: Two Sum and substring
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: video-supported online test
I started with recruiter outreach and an initial online step. The assessment used video support and examples of the reasoning and approach they wanted, so it felt less about memorization than about how I structured my thinking. After I cleared it, I had short, focused technical interviews before the final round was scheduled. Later conversations explicitly covered networking, troubleshooting, aut…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with back-to-back DSA rounds
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with five final interviews
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with linked-list screen
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.
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with three coding problems
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…
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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with two-day four-round loop
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…
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Amazon Applied Scientist Interview Experience — Phone Screen Covers Music Recommendation CTR System Design
Phone screen Describe yourself What's your PhD topic What's your contribution Describe a time when you deliver under tight timeline ML Given a music recommendation, how would you design a system to convert to CTR rate? How do you embed the song? How do you deal with certain features? How do you deal with extremely sparse feature? Results aren't out yet, will update as I know more. Describe an ML…
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Amazon Business Analyst interview experience: expected SQL that never came
The process initially sounded as if it would cover SQL and behavioral topics. Once the interview started, however, it stayed entirely behavioral and scenario based. I expected a live SQL assessment, but it never materialized. Communication afterward was poor. The recruiter did not reply to my follow-up emails, and an automated rejection notice arrived a couple of days later. The interview itself…
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Amazon Business Analyst interview with SQL and business case
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…
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Amazon Business Intelligence Engineer Final Round Interview Experience — SQL, Analytics Case Studies, and Two Straight Rounds of Behavioral Questions
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…
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Amazon Business Intelligence Engineer Interview Experience — Deep Leadership Follow-ups, SQL, and Data Visualization
I am sharing the BIE phone interview that I just failed. I hope it can help everyone. A senior DE interviewed me and brought along a junior AE. Leadership BQ They first looked at my resume and asked about projects I had done and about leadership. The questions went very deep. After one A/B test, did I run any other tests? What kind of trade-off led to not launching? Which team did I work with? Wa…
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Amazon Business Intelligence Engineer Interview Experience — SQL Interrupted and a Shortened Phone Screen
I'd interviewed for Amazon BIE twice before. This was my third time, and the content was different every time. There aren't many related questions shared, so I'm contributing my experience to give everyone a sense of the difficulty. SQL: Write a query to find departments where more than 50% of employees exceeded their quarterly targets, but the department's overall sales growth is below the compa…
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Amazon Data Engineer Interview Experience — An Assisted VO With BQ and Two Coding Questions
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…
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Amazon Data Engineer Interview Experience — BQ Plus Two Coding Questions in a Referral VO
Last week's Amazon VO, done through a referral, 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 encourage them and come up with a way to solve it? Why did you choose Amazon? Coding part: Coding 1: You're given a string array words. Each word can be written as the concatenation of th…
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Amazon Data Scientist Interview Experience — Technical Screen With ML Basics and Leadership Principles Questions
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…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Customer Success Engineer interview: approachable coding and AI
The interviews did not feel especially hostile, and the pace was manageable. After applying, I completed an automated online assessment and then had rounds that mixed straightforward coding with behavioral questions. The live coding questions were more approachable than the horror stories I had heard. One involved finding duplicates and another resembled Longest Common Prefix. There was a lot of…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer four-round coding and leadership loop
After an online assessment, I entered a deliberate loop meant to assess both coding and engineering judgment, with leadership principles throughout. The loop had four rounds: two coding interviews, a behavioral conversation built around Amazon Leadership Principles, and a hiring-manager round with another coding problem plus a high-level design discussion. One coding round started with a medium p…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer interview: a GenAI round within the virtual loop
The process began with an online assessment containing coding challenges and a work simulation. The interviews that followed felt like an Amazon loop, combining technical evaluation with Leadership Principles rather than separating them. The virtual onsite consisted of several back-to-back interviews of about an hour each, including hiring-manager-type and bar-raiser-style discussions. Each inter…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer interview: a structured coding and design loop
My process followed what felt like the classic Amazon sequence. A recruiter screen led to a take-home LeetCode-style coding assessment, followed by live coding. I then had a system-design interview with two separate design questions and finished with a behavioral interview about communication and collaboration. The structure was what I remembered most. The behavioral questions asked me to demonst…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer interview: compact linked-list screen
I had about two rounds, split between behavioral and technical work. The technical questions were LeetCode-style and mostly easy to medium, so I initially expected to move through them cleanly. I solved a couple of questions on a coding platform and then reached a single technical round with one linked-list problem. It required careful structural thinking rather than pattern recall. I did not get…
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Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer interview: consecutive loop with bar raiser
After the online assessment, I went straight into a back-to-back loop that felt exhausting but focused. The interviews ran consecutively, and the bar-raiser-style behavioral round carried a lot of weight. It felt harder than the other behavioral conversations. The other rounds mixed technical work with behavioral prompts tied to how I handle real situations. Technical coverage included strings, d…