Does the Amazon Interview Ask You to Share Your Screen?
By Aaron Cao · Updated
Sometimes. Behavioral rounds are plain conversations with no screen share. Coding rounds usually happen in a shared online editor both sides can see without sharing a screen, but some interviewers ask candidates to share their screen for coding, design tools, or debugging exercises. If sharing happens, everything on that screen is visible.
Which Amazon rounds involve your screen at all?
Amazon's Loop mixes formats, and the screen question has a different answer per format. Behavioral rounds, roughly half of a typical Loop, are pure conversation on Amazon Chime: camera and voice, nothing shared. Coding rounds normally run in a shared online editor that both sides open in their own browsers; the interviewer sees your code because the editor is shared by design, not because your screen is.
Screen sharing enters when an interviewer prefers it for a particular exercise: walking through a design in a drawing tool, debugging something interactive, or occasionally just their personal habit for coding rounds. It is a request made in the moment, and it is normal in both directions; plenty of Loops finish without a single shared screen.
The full stage-by-stage picture of Amazon's process is in the company interview processes hub.
What does sharing your screen actually expose?
Exactly what it shows: the shared screen or window, in full, for as long as sharing lasts. If you share a full display, every window, notification, and overlay on that display is visible to the interviewer. That is not an Amazon-specific behavior; it is what screen sharing is, on Chime, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams alike.
This is also where honesty about assist tools matters. SubcueAI's position, stated across this site, is that shared screens are out of scope: an overlay that lives on your display is on your display, and no tool should promise invisibility once sharing starts. The same applies to recorded rounds and to Amazon's online assessments, which for some roles carry proctoring that goes beyond the screen itself.
How should you prepare either way?
You want to walk in unafraid of the request, and that takes ten minutes of hygiene. Prepare a clean profile: a separate desktop or browser profile with nothing personal open, notifications off, and only the tabs the interview needs. If asked to share, share a window rather than the whole display when the exercise allows it, and say so naturally; window sharing is standard professional practice, not evasion.
A frontend engineer with a Loop on short notice is a typical case. She kept her notes and assistant on the conversation-only rounds, and when one coding interviewer asked for a shared screen she shared a single browser window with the editor, having already silenced everything else. The request changed her setup for forty-five minutes, not her preparation.
Practicing the narrate-while-coding format until it is comfortable is the real preparation; the mock interview tool runs timed coding-style questions out loud, and honest detection boundaries are collected on the detectability topic.