Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Cupertino, CAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a single 70-minute interview that started with behavioral questions.

I was asked five behavior-focused prompts that I handled using the STAR method, and the interviewer stayed kind and helpful throughout. After that, the session moved into one LeetCode medium coding question.

The coding problem used hash maps, and I spent the time solving while also thinking about the usual time and space complexity expectations. When I got stuck, I could tell the interviewer was willing to guide me so I wouldn’t just freeze. Toward the end, I still had a few minutes left to ask about the team, which made the last part of the interview feel less like a test and more like a

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