Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Cape TownPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with a longer online assessment where the hardest part for me was a very touchy coding prompt—I had about 70 minutes to finish, and it was structured like a single coding challenge rather than multiple small ones.

Alongside that, there was also a character/behavior-style assessment about decision-making in software engineering scenarios.

A short time later I went into the final round. That was a full hour with behavioral questions first and then a coding segment for the second half. The whole thing ended up feeling straightforward overall, though I didn’t get an offer, and the schedule details I saw made it clear timing and interviewer selection can really affect how smooth or tough it feels.

What stayed with me was how the assessment set the tone: the “decision making” portion and then the heavy

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