Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy
- What are your criticisms of Amazon as a company or product?
“Sitting across from an Amazon interviewer being asked to trash their own company is a strange place to be.”
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
“Sitting across from an Amazon interviewer being asked to trash their own company is a strange place to be.”
“I fumbled this more than I expected.”
“These two get conflated a lot and I've seen people fumble it by defining one in terms of the other.”
“My first instinct was to just iterate through every number and count the 1s.”
“Felt pretty solid here.”
“I jumped straight into customer segmentation and kind of forgot to first ask why they were expanding at all.”
“Classic Amazon LP question.”
“This one messed with me more than I expected.”
“Pretty foundational stuff.”
“I had a story ready but it came out way too passive, like I barely pushed back at all.”