Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Vancouver, BCPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop interview was spread across multiple sessions and felt very leadership-heavy.

I went through several rounds where Amazon’s leadership principles were explicitly evaluated, with eight of them broken across four separate sessions aligned with different teams. Each session also included at least one technical question.

Every technical part had about an hour allocated for solving. The pacing was demanding because I wasn’t just answering behavioral prompts—I had to keep up with the engineering problem-solving alongside the leadership assessment.

At the end, I didn’t receive an offer. The experience was still valuable, but it felt like the bar was high across both

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