Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Dublin, DublinPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My AWS interview journey stretched out over weeks and felt structured, but the timing made it mentally harder than the actual questions.

A recruiter reached out and then I ended up doing an OA and an initial screening, and eventually moved into a bigger set of interviews. At one point I made it to an on-site style segment where multiple interviewers came back-to-back at their office—four separate interviews where two were system design, one was coding, and one focused on behavioral with the hiring manager.

The coding part was different from a typical solo problem because I was coding live with someone watching and commenting, and that added stress even when the technical difficulty was manageable. The system design rounds had

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