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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

May 2026
Amazon SWE interview with a graph shortest path problem. Pretty standard stuff but I fumbled a bit on the details.
  • Find the shortest path between two nodes in a graph.

“Went with BFS for unweighted, mentioned Dijkstra for weighted.”

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Amazon·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Amazon stats question, just the one. Felt more like a quick screen than a full interview round.
  • You flip a coin 10 times and get only one head. What null hypothesis would you set up to test whether the coin is fair, and what p-value do you get?

“The null is straightforward, coin is fair so p=0.5.”

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Amazon·Product Manager·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

May 2026
Amazon PM loop, one of the heavier behavioral rounds focused on leadership and alignment under pressure. The question about pivoting strategy with stakeholder pushback was the one I kept thinking about afterward.
  • Describe a situation where you changed your strategic direction and faced disagreement from stakeholders.

“I had a decent story for this but I think I buried the lead.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Coding / Algorithms

May 2026
Amazon SWE coding round with two algorithmic problems. Both were math/logic heavy and the second one had a tricky scheduling twist that I didn't fully see coming.
  • Given four integers a, b, c, d (each between 1 and 1000), you can repeatedly apply either (a, b) -> (a+b, b) or (a, b) -> (a, a+b). Determine whether it's possible to transform the pair (a, b) into (c, d).
  • You have n tasks, each with a memory requirement and a type. Tasks take 1 unit of time individually, but two tasks of the same type can run in parallel if their combined memory doesn't exceed a given limit. What's the minimum total time to complete all tasks?

“My first instinct was to go forward from (a, b) and BFS toward (c, d), but the values can balloon fast and I started second-guessing the bounds.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Product analyst interview at Amazon, one question about churn segmentation. Pretty standard but the scope of the question is wider than it sounds.
  • How would you go about segmenting users for a churn analysis?

“I started with behavioral segments like engagement frequency and feature usage, then layered in tenure and plan type.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Amazon SWE coding round, one question the whole time: multi-source BFS. Seemed straightforward at first but there are enough edge cases to trip you up if you haven't seen it before.
  • Given a graph with multiple source nodes, implement multi-source BFS to find the shortest distance from any source node to every other node in the graph. Return a dictionary mapping each node to its minimum distance.

“The setup looks clean until you realize you need to seed the queue with all sources at distance zero simultaneously, not run separate BFS passes and take the min afterward.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

May 2026
Amazon SWE online assessment, one coding problem about maximizing consecutive ON servers with a flip budget. Pretty standard sliding window territory if you've seen it before.
  • Given an array of server states (0=OFF, 1=ON) and an integer k, find the length of the longest contiguous subarray of all 1s if you can flip at most k zeros to ones.

“Classic sliding window with a zero-count tracker.”

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Amazon·Product Manager·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

May 2026
Amazon PM interview, just one question about leadership principles. Not much to go on but it's the kind of thing that can trip you up if you haven't really thought about which principle you'd actually defend in a room.
  • Which Amazon leadership principle is your favorite, and why?

“I'd been prepping for the harder behavioral stuff and kind of assumed this one would be a gimme.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

May 2026
Behavioral round at Amazon for a software engineering role, centered on the classic conflicting-stakeholders scenario. One question, but it had enough moving parts to keep me on my toes.
  • Describe a situation where you had to support customers or stakeholders with conflicting needs. How did you figure out what each side actually wanted, prioritize between them, communicate the decision, and measure the result?

“The part I fumbled was quantifying the impact.”

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Amazon·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

May 2026
Amazon OA for a SWE role, one coding problem about array manipulation. Pretty standard competitive programming flavor but the edge cases tripped me up more than I expected.
  • Given an integer array and a target value k, you can pick any contiguous subarray and add a single integer x to every element in it (at most once). What is the maximum number of elements you can make equal to k?

“My first instinct was greedy and it was wrong.”

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