Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got a pretty streamlined interview compared to what I’d heard from others.

It was one round that combined behavioral and technical questions and lasted about 45 minutes. The technical part was a medium graph problem straight from a LeetCode-style format.

For the behavioral portion, I was asked a few leadership-principle prompts, and the interviewer made it feel more like a conversation than a test. I prepared in STAR form, and we moved at a comfortable pace.

I received an offer. Even with the pressure of a graph problem, the whole session didn’t feel hostile, and I appreciated that once I finished the coding early we were able to finish strong with a short

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