Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a loop with about four or five interviews, and it moved through a pretty standard Amazon sequence.

The first interview was system design, where there were two interviewers and I had to write classes that would make up the system. We also discussed whether I knew common design patterns.

After that, I faced a bar raiser interview and then a LeetCode-style graph problem with a small variation. The final interview was a hiring manager round where the question involved using a priority queue—more like LeetCode logic than a pure data-structures trivia question. Every interview also had a behavioral segment, and my answers were expected to follow STAR-style structure. I didn’t get an offer, but

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