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FAANG / Big Tech

Most of these Amazon write-ups come from Software Engineers (1,092), then Data Scientists (182) and Product Managers (165). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (618), the behavioral / leadership round (309), the online assessment (228) and the system design round (159).

1581 interview notes · updated Oct 2026

Amazon·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Amazon technical screen for a software engineer role, focused entirely on practical tooling: Linux command line fluency and SQL query writing. No algorithms, no system design, just 'can you actually use these tools day to day.' Felt more like a skills audit than a traditional interview.
  • Which Linux and Unix commands do you use regularly, and how do they fit into your actual day-to-day work as an engineer?
  • What kinds of SQL queries can you write, and how do you go from a vague business question to an actual working query?
  • How do joins affect row counts, and what do you watch out for when writing them?
  • How would you write a query to get the most recent record for each user?

“I started listing commands alphabetically like an idiot before catching myself and grouping them by what they're for.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026
Behavioral round at Amazon for a software engineering role, basically one big question about failure and what you did about it. The whole thing was clearly testing a few of their leadership principles at once, which made it feel a bit loaded.
  • Tell me about a time you failed at something important. What happened, what was your role in the failure, what did you do to recover, and what did you learn?

“The multi-part structure is what gets you.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026
Round 4 at Amazon for a software engineering role, two behavioral questions back to back. Pretty standard leadership principle territory but still worth prepping specific stories for.
  • Tell me about a time you worked under different management styles. How did you adapt your communication approach, and what did you take away from it?
  • Describe a time you were juggling multiple projects at once and something went sideways. What happened and what did you do differently after?

“I had a decent story here but rambled a bit trying to cover two different managers in one answer.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Hiring Manager Screen

Jun 2026
Amazon business analyst interview, came down to one pretty meaty question about using data to spot underperformers. Not a lot of fluff, they wanted specifics fast.
  • Walk me through a time you used data to identify business units that were underperforming.

“I fumbled the opener a bit because I started with the metrics before explaining why I was looking in the first place.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

Jun 2026
Amazon SWE coding question, probably an OA. The problem felt like it should've been a duplicate of something but I couldn't place it.
  • Given an integer array of data points and a list of queries where each query replaces all occurrences of an old value with a new value, return an array of the total sum of data points after each query is applied.

“Spent a bit too long second-guessing edge cases.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Amazon SWE coding screen, one main problem with two follow-ups that escalated pretty fast. The core question was easy enough but the follow-ups pushed into territory I wasn't fully prepared for.
  • Given a list of integers, print every odd number in the list.
  • Does your solution correctly handle negative numbers? For example, is -3 considered odd?
  • How would you handle integers that are too large to fit in 64 bits, such as arbitrary-precision numbers represented as strings?

“Fine, wrote the loop, checked modulo, done in two minutes.”

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Amazon·Technical Program Manager·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026
Behavioral loop at Amazon for a TPM role, pretty standard Amazon leadership principle territory. One question about holding the line on quality or customer experience standards.
  • Describe a situation where you refused to lower your standards on quality or customer experience, even under pressure.

“Classic Amazon question and I still fumbled the setup a bit.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026
One round of behavioral questions at Amazon for a BI Engineer role, just two questions spread across a full hour which felt like a lot of time for not a lot of ground covered.
  • Tell me about the most challenging project you've worked on.

“Classic question but an hour for two BQ questions means they really dug in.”

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Amazon·Machine Learning Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Amazon ML engineer interview, got asked to implement KNN from scratch. Pretty standard for this type of role but still stressful when you're on the spot.
  • Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm from scratch.

“I started with brute force distance calculation which they seemed fine with, but then they pushed on complexity and I fumbled a bit explaining why KD-trees help.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round

Jun 2026
Went through a three-round loop at Amazon for a new grad security engineering role. No coding at all, which surprised me. Heavy on behavioral questions and one technical scenario, and I still have no idea how it went.
  • Walk me through a security project from your resume in depth, including the design decisions you made, alternatives you considered, and how you validated the outcome.
  • How would you apply generative AI to solve a specific technical security problem?
  • Describe how you would investigate a security incident from initial alert through to resolution.
  • Tell me about a time you had to adapt quickly when a project or situation changed unexpectedly.
  • Describe a situation where you had to work through a technically complex problem with limited guidance.
  • Tell me about a time you had to influence or align others on a technical decision.

“This was the bulk of round one.”

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