Amazon·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)
Apr 2026
Took the Amazon SDE online assessment for the 2026 grad cohort and it did not go well. Two questions, zero test cases passed, and the second one involved Django debugging with an AI assistant built into the platform, which was a combo I was completely unprepared for.
- Algorithmic coding question where the provided instructions referenced variables and functions that didn't match the actual starter code.
- Debugging a comment algorithm in a Django codebase, with an AI assistant integrated into the environment to help.
“The mismatch between the problem description and the actual code threw me off more than the problem itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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