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Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 4, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Coding round sent on HackerRank.

It included:

  • Two LeetCode medium-to-hard difficulty questions to be done in 90 minutes.
  • An untimed work style assessment covering 5 work scenarios, with options to choose the best response to a given situation.
  • A basic personality aptitude quiz.

Questions

Modify a binary sequence with possible anomalies to lower the error cost of the binary string.

Error cost for converting '01' and '10' is given, respectively.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 84 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

6%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive48%
Neutral38%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.