Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an OA and then it basically turned into a single interview.

In that session, I was asked both technical and behavioral questions together, and it felt pretty straightforward overall. The technical part was usually one LeetCode-style problem—counting islands came up for me, and we talked through approaches like BFS vs DFS—while the interviewer also asked the kind of behavioral questions that map back to leadership principles.

The vibe was friendly and respectful, and I never felt like I was getting cornered. Besides the main coding problem, I had follow-ups and supplement questions, plus a set of leadership-principle STAR-style prompts to connect my

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