Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Sunnyvale, CAPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into a process where scheduling was tight and the rounds hit the same day.

I had three interviews planned for that day, and each one came back to Amazon’s leadership principles with lots of follow-up questions aimed at verifying how I’d actually demonstrated those principles.

The first round included a data-structures-and-algorithms coding question, and I also saw a DSA-style prompt again later that emphasized similar fundamentals. The second round leaned more toward who I was and how I’d work in real situations, with leadership-principles questions guiding the conversation.

Overall, it was a good experience, but the day’s pace and the amount of follow-up made it

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