Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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IrelandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment, and after that I stepped into a series of live interviews that blended deeper DSA with Amazon Leadership Principle-style evaluation.

I remember moving through multiple back-to-back rounds where the technical portion wasn’t just “solve it,” but “solve it while sounding confident and structured,” and the leadership parts required concrete stories tied to specific principles.

In the coding rounds, I was asked medium and even harder DSA problems, including topics like trees and hash-based approaches. I also had rounds where leadership principles took center stage and the follow-ups got surprisingly detailed. In one of the earlier technical interviews, I got hit with Java-oriented fundamentals questions—things like primitive

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