Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Seattle, WAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an OA, I went into a team-matching phase and then into a real interview loop.

The loop consisted of three rounds with different flavors: one low-level design programming round, one DSA coding round, and one behavioral round with the hiring manager. The behavioral section was very clearly oriented around Amazon leadership principles, and it followed the STAR-style format—grounding answers in my past experiences rather than hypotheticals.

The coding and DSA rounds were where the difficulty showed up in the mechanics: I had to stay sharp on problem-solving while still explaining my reasoning. The LLD round pushed me to think about how I’d structure code and data, not

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