Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a phone screen, I was invited to a virtual onsite loop with four interviews.

The rounds were pretty structured: three coding interviews and one system design interview. Even though the recruiter set expectations early, the onsite still felt like it moved quickly from one conversation to the next.

On the coding side, I got typical LeetCode-style problem-solving and had to be clear as I worked through the solutions. The system design round asked me to think at a higher level and explain how I’d build and reason about a bigger piece of functionality, not just write code. The overall difficulty felt difficult, but the interviews themselves came across as organized and

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