Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with the Amazon assessment, and once I cleared that, I went into a three-round interview loop.

The rounds were a mix of coding and behavioral in different orders. One round focused on technical coding tied to OOP topics along with Leadership Principles; another round leaned harder into behavioral questions based on those principles; the last round returned to technical coding.

Even though I had an overall difficult experience, I did end up receiving an offer. The thing that defined the loop for me was the alternation between talking through my leadership behaviors and solving coding problems, which made the interview feel like it was testing both my engineering thinking and how I

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