Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Dublin, INPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a technical and language assessment, I got an email with links to internal Amazon recruitment process info and company values, which made the whole thing feel more guided than I expected.

The interview that followed was then more focused on the manager side—technical plus system design, with behavior lighter at the end.

One of the oddest parts was the interviewer’s mood shift. They seemed frustrated at the beginning, but it didn’t last; the tone improved quickly and the conversation became a lot more constructive. The technical and system design focus meant we spent more time on structured thinking than on dramatic behavioral storytelling, even though some closing behavioral questions still happened.

Overall, the process took around a few weeks for me, and it ended up being

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