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Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: leadership and ownership stories
My online assessment combined coding with a work-style survey. The phone interview after it was entirely behavioral. I had to organize past experiences into STAR-style answers: the situation, the task I owned, what I did and what happened as a result. The recruiter and interview structure came up early. The process included an initial recruiter check, the OA and interviews with a strong focus on…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: long OA wait
My process began with an online assessment that took a long time before interviews started. After I submitted it, I moved into interviews built around coding patterns and Leadership Principles. The technical side leaned on LeetCode-style questions, while leadership themes stayed prominent. Based on what I had heard about common topics, I prepared stories around Customer Obsession, Ownership, and…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: panel loop
My process began with an online assessment that combined a leadership-principles-style behavioral component with coding. After I passed, I moved into a back-to-back, in-person-style interview loop, and the number of perspectives on the panel was immediately noticeable. The hiring manager started with behavioral questions tied to Leadership Principles and a deep look at my background and projects.…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: practical coding
I had a shorter, fairly direct process with two to three rounds that combined behavioral discussion and lighter technical work. The behavioral round checked Bias for Action, my fluency with GenAI ideas, and how I handle troubleshooting situations. The coding round was more about practical problem solving than deep systems work. Most of the coding was easy to medium LeetCode-style material. I reme…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: technical and leadership loop
After the early steps, I entered a fast-moving loop that combined technical interviews with leadership-focused behavioral questions. Each round paired a behavioral component with technical work, and one round was purely behavioral. The technical topics ranged across strings, priority queues, and object-oriented design. The bar-raiser-style round felt hardest. It was not only more intense because…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview with a four-part final loop
The process felt well organized from the start. The recruiting team kept things clear, even when one session had to be rescheduled because of an interviewer emergency. At the final stage, I went through a four-interview technical loop covering data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, system design, and behavioral questions tied to leadership principles. The interviewers were profes…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview with two modes
I had back-to-back interviews with the hiring manager and then an engineer from the team. Both were 60 minutes and combined behavioral and technical evaluation. For the first 15 minutes of each conversation, the questions were behavioral. The rest shifted to DSA. I could not settle into just one mode because I had to switch quickly from explaining past choices to solving problems with standard al…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer interview: work simulation, technical screen and virtual loop
I spoke with a recruiter and, about a week later, took an online assessment with coding challenges, a work simulation, and behavioral questions about Amazon Leadership Principles. It felt deliberately structured to test both my thinking and how I would operate in a role. Then came technical screening and a multi-round virtual loop. Data structures, algorithms, and system-design basics drove the t…
Interview experiences · Amazon (Project Kuiper)
Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services Software Engineer online assessment and four-round loop
After an online assessment, I had a recruiter touchpoint and entered the loop roughly a week later. The loop had four rounds: two coding-focused interviews, a bar raiser round, and a separate discussion about fit with another team. The coding work combined algorithms and design. One round was LeetCode style, and the other was system design. Leadership Principles were a repeated theme, so I discus…
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Amazon Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience — 90 Minutes Covering System Design, RL, and a Graph-Cycle Coding Question
Basically felt like going into battle with my head already wrapped in bandages, wounded before I even started. It was originally scheduled for one hour, but it ended up running an hour and a half. The coverage was extremely comprehensive: 1) First, a self-introduction covering the projects I'd done, but with a bit of a science-breadth angle mixed in — this took 3-5 minutes. 2) Right after that ca…
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Amazon Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience — Onsite Loop for the Grand Challenge Health-AI Incubator
Grand Challenge is Amazon's internal incubator, similar to Google X — in fact it was founded in 2014 by Babak Parviz, the former Director of Google X. Right now it's mainly focused on applying AI to healthcare, and the project is highly confidential outside the team. That said, the interviewers and the hiring manager were warm and friendly, and the overall experience was positive. The interview h…
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Amazon Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience — Phone Screen ML Deep-Dive Then a Five-Round Onsite
Phone Screen Part one was ML knowledge. The interviewer basically didn't ask about basic definitions — the whole thing revolved around digging into my project. From model selection to training details to evaluation, every answer just led to another follow-up. Typical questions included: how did you do evaluation for your model? Which metrics did you use? Why did you choose them? What are the math…
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Amazon New Grad Applied Scientist Interview Experience — A Month of Recruiter Ghosting Before One Chaotic Phone Screen
3/13 - recruiter call scheduled, system email assigned recruiter 1 3/15 - rejected, me: ??? 3/16 - recruiter call with recruiter 2, very nice person, said I could set up a mock interview with them, we scheduled a time, then they ghosted 3/17-4/13 - I kept providing my availability, kept hearing "does not meet team calendar," this kept repeating... 4/14 - recruiter 2 was out of office, recruiter c…
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Amazon New Grad Applied Scientist Interview Experience — Five Virtual Onsite Rounds, Mostly Behavioral, End in an L4 Offer
Background: I'm a non-CS PhD with a CS master's. Earlier this year, after there was a lot of negative news about my advisor, I switched advisors, gave up on academia, and started interviewing. Prep: since I had no internship experience and I'm not a CS PhD, my rule for myself was that I had to land an offer within at most two interviews, so I probably prepared more than I actually needed to. Roug…
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Amazon New Grad Data Scientist Interview Experience — Five Rounds Split Across Two Days
Amazon DS new grad interview experience. Five rounds total — the first round was a screening, and the other four were split across two days, two rounds each day. Of the five rounds, one was pure behavioral (BQ). The interviewer's title was Spec. Principal Sales Rep, and they asked "tell me about a time when you..." style questions the whole way through. Since the interviewer was a non-tech audien…
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Amazon New Grad Frontend Engineer Interview Experience — Phone Screen, Virtual Onsite, and Bar Raiser
Amazon 2026 New Grad Timeline and Interview Experience Role: Frontend Engineer, or perhaps Full Stack Engineer. During the interview, the hiring manager said there could be an opportunity to move toward full-stack work within the team later. I just finished interviewing for an Amazon Frontend Engineer role this week. I wanted to share the full process, the interview content, and the resources I u…
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Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — A Bar Raiser and Three Coding Rounds
R1: Bar Raiser The first interview was the Bar Raiser. It contained only behavioral questions and no coding. R2 Coding: Minimum Point Consumption Across Multiple Programs Problem description A user has points from different programs, such as airline miles, credit-card points, and store points. Each program has a different redemption rate, and the rates change daily. The user wants to pay a fixed…
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Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — AWS Offer After Four Onsite Rounds
Timeline: July 24: HR reached out on LinkedIn; I applied. July 31: OA. August 24: Survey. September 4: BOS onsite. September 10: Verbal offer. Four back-to-back onsite rounds. First round The interviewer asked two behavioral questions: one about doing something outside my area of responsibility, and one about helping a peer who was struggling. The coding question was similar to LeetCode 1152, but…
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Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — Binary Swaps and a Django Post Fix
I took the online assessment. It had two parts. DSA: minimum adjacent swaps for a binary array Given an array containing only 0s and 1s, rearrange it so that all 0s are at one end and all 1s are at the other. Either ordering was allowed: 000...111 or 111...000. In one move, I could swap two adjacent elements. I had to return the minimum number of moves required. For [0, 1, 0, 1], the answer was 1…
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Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — Four Rounds Ending with a Bar Raiser
round 1: behavioral questions + coding Behavioral questions: a time you made a decision with incomplete information; a time you disagreed with a teammate or your manager and how you handled it Coding: Given an array of strings, group together all words that are anagrams of each other and return the groups. The interviewer also asked me not to use the O(n·k log k) approach with sorted signatures.…
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Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — Leadership Principle BQs and an Edit Distance Follow-up
Round 1 BQ1: Give an example of how you organized a product. BQ2: Give an example of a time you missed a deadline. BQ3: Talk about a time you thought something was wrong but stuck to your own view. Prepare your stories using the STAR method. Except for the first two — "the project you're most proud of" type stories — try to add lessons learned to the rest. Tell the story in a concise, easy-to-fol…
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Amazon Product Manager Interview Experience — Five Rounds, All Behavioral Questions
After one round with the hiring manager, I got the result the next business day: move forward to the virtual onsite. There was almost a month gap after that, so I had plenty of time to prepare. I split the 5 rounds across two days, and it was pure behavioral questions the whole way through. I remembered roughly some of the questions, so sharing them here. The first one was with the hiring manager…
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Amazon Product Manager Interview Experience — Untimed OA Then an HM Phone Screen on Delivery-Driver Metrics
Sharing my hiring-manager phone screen. I mass-applied to non-tech positions at Amazon, and the recruiter emailed pretty quickly to schedule an OA. After passing the OA, there was a 45-60 minute phone screen with the HM. The OA was a work simulation and work style assessment — there were videos and emails simulating a typical work environment, and it wasn't timed! So just relax and take your time…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Product Manager interview: organized PM scenarios
A recruiter first covered my background and asked about specific PM problems I had worked on, why I chose my approaches, and their impact. Scheduling then came with clear notice of timing and what each next round would involve. Later I had two video rounds. One was a greenfield product/design problem where I framed the problem and discussed tradeoffs. The other focused on PM routines and a diffic…