Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

United StatesPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an online assessment, I ended up with two onsite interviews that were both structured around Amazon’s leadership style and technical coding.

Each onsite interview ran about an hour, and they mixed behavioral questions tied to leadership principles with coding that required writing code from scratch, with hints provided along the way.

In the technical parts, I was asked to solve LeetCode-style problems and actually implement the solution live rather than just talk through ideas. The behavioral segments emphasized how I handled past situations using leadership principles, and the pace felt pretty focused—enough time to explain my thinking, but not so much that I could ramble.

The whole journey felt like a standard Amazon loop with

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