Amazon·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
Jul 2026
Did an Amazon SDE Intern technical phone screen, about an hour long, with a project deep dive followed by two coding problems. Came out of it not really knowing what to think since one question went well and the other I never even got to code.
- Walk me through your recent projects, including any AI or production work you've done.
- Given piles of candies and k children, find the maximum number of candies each child can receive if every child must get the same amount.
- In a grid where you can move to the next column only if the destination cell has a strictly greater value, find the maximum number of moves you can make.
“They went pretty deep.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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