Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

Santa Monica, CAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an online assessment, I had a short live interview with an engineer.

The technical part was a tree question plus a medium LeetCode problem, and the rest of the time was behavioral. The behavioral questions followed the STAR approach and were framed around Amazon’s leadership ideas.

The overall format felt straightforward, but the timing wasn’t. The delay between stages took longer than I was told, and that stretched the process a bit. Even with that, I felt like I was communicating clearly through the coding portion and keeping my stories structured.

I ended up getting an offer, and looking back the biggest surprise was how the schedule drifted even though

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