Amazon Web Services Systems Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a longer, assessment-heavy path.

I first did an online assessment, and the overall process stretched across several steps with a lot of waiting between them. Eventually I was invited to a technical round that focused on DSA, and it included two questions—one on prefix sums and another on an advanced binary search.

After that, the process shifted into a take-home style component followed by additional online interviews. Those follow-up interviews emphasized technical problem-solving and system design discussions, plus a more direct conversation about my previous engineering approach. The timeline felt longer than it was

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