Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

I had two LeetCode-style medium questions inside a set time limit, but one problem was oddly confusing for me—something involving string splitting and reformatting—while the second was easier. After that assessment, the rest of the process never really materialized the way I expected.

There was also a heavy emphasis on leadership principles in the way Amazon frames the behavioral side: when I did see any human interaction in this phase, it was tied to STAR-style storytelling meant to test leadership behaviors. The part that stung was the lack of closure—there was no follow-up response