Applied online for a Software Development Engineer role.

Got two 45-minute phone screens:

• Data structures
• Algorithms
• A quick dive into one Leadership Principle.

A week later, I had a virtual "onsite" with four back-to-back interviews:

• Two whiteboard coding rounds
• One systems-design lite
• One pure Leadership Principles chat.

Interviewers were friendly but dove deep into my thought process and past decisions.

They actually zeroed in on a single Amazon Leadership Principle—Ownership—and asked me to walk through a real example. In my case, the exact prompt was:

“Tell me about a time when you took complete ownership of a project and drove it to completion despite obstacles.”

They wanted a STAR-style story showing how I identified the problem, rallied stakeholders, and owned both the successes and the setbacks end to end.