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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      5 Dec 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2024

      Interview

      For my first interview, I didn’t like the interviewer. He spoke in very broken English, and it was hard to understand him. He appeared to be reading from the screen the entire time but was unable to connect the conversation smoothly. It felt like I was talking to a robot which made it difficult to relate. Not to mention, he had some audio issues where the sound kept cutting out so much that I couldn’t hear what he was saying. It didn’t really make sense to me, and eventually, it got to the point where I couldn’t even continue the interview, so we had to see about rescheduling. I moved on to the second interview about 30 minutes later. The guy was much better. I could hear him clearly. He did have a strong accent, but I could still understand him, and we had a pretty good back-and-forth. He was a little stiff conversationally, though. It felt like everyone else I interviewed with was uncomfortably hard to talk to; they just weren’t approachable, which I didn’t like. I did my questions with him, and it went pretty well, but I didn’t have time to ask any questions at the end because of how long the technical question took. For the third interview, there were two guys sitting in a room facing each other, and I couldn’t understand them at all. I didn’t know what they were saying. One of them had a really strong Indian accent, and the other guy didn’t speak at all. I told them I couldn’t hear and asked if it was okay for them to repeat themselves because I had trouble hearing the first time. I tried answering the behavioral questions to the best of my ability, but when it came to the technical question, I knew how to answer it. However, I realized I didn’t want to work for Amazon, so I told them that I would like to withdraw my application. I answered the question, we had a conversation about it, and I thanked them for their time and said I really appreciated it.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Tech Q1: Implement an unbound set where each entry has an expiration date and disappears once it has expired
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Behavioral Q1: Tell me about a problem you had to solve that required in-depth thought and analysis? How did you know you were focusing on the right things?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Behavioral Q2: Give an example of a tough or critical piece of feedback you received. What was it and what did you do about it?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Amazon is having a site wide sale everything 20% off write function that takes a sentence found on the amazon retail website counts the price if there is a price present and finally returns modified sentence
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Behavioral Q3: Can u explain about * OAuth and why it was needed for your website
      Answer question

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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      18 Jun 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
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      Negative experience
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      Interview

      Tough interview. The Process: Automated Online Assessment (OA) with 2 coding questions and a system simulation, followed by a 4-round virtual Loop. Every single round started with 20 minutes of intense, behavioral behavioral questions diving into Amazon's Leadership Principles, followed by 25 minutes of technical coding or system design. Amazon interviews are a test of mental endurance because you have to switch from deep behavioral storytelling straight into complex coding which can be so difficult. I used Apex Interviewer to practice the cognitive context switch. Running through their live-coding workspace helped me ensure my technical communication and architectural structures remained sharp and automatic, even after spending the first half of the interview defending my past project metrics. I fed the practice AI questions I extracted from glassdoor and gothamloop. In the end, the offer was way lower than I hoped.

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      Dublin, Dublin
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      Application

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      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
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      Positive experience
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      Application

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      Interview

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