Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online for an SDE2 role and ended up doing a HackerRank online assessment before any interviews.

After that, my loop was mostly in-person, with three onsite rounds that mixed DSA/problem solving and system design. One of the rounds was specifically virtual and acted like a Bar Raiser check, where the focus felt more aligned with Amazon’s overall bar and how I communicate and reason, not just whether I could solve a single technical problem.

The technical progression surprised me a bit because the system design rounds leaned into structured LLD/HLD-style thinking, and I had to adjust from coding problem solving to explaining architecture clearly. Across the process I spoke to multiple

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