Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey leaned heavily on leadership principles and follow-ups.

After initial scheduling, I ended up with multiple rounds focused on how I’d applied Amazon’s leadership principles in real situations—sometimes framed as “what would you do” and “how would you do it,” with interviewers pushing to make sure I could clearly demonstrate the traits they were looking for. I had a lot of probing questions that forced me to expand my reasoning rather than just give a headline.

There was also a technical side, but it didn’t feel like the main weight of the process. I got a data-structures-and-algorithms style coding prompt in more than one round, paired with

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