Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

The prompts leaned on brute force rather than trick optimizations, and the main risk I ran into was spending too much time trying to chase an optimal strategy instead of committing to the simpler approach they were expecting.

Once I progressed into the next parts of the process, the technical rounds followed an escalation pattern. I got asked a medium coding problem, and when I moved through it quickly, the interview shifted into a much more advanced follow-up—especially involving graph-related dynamic programming style complexity. That jump made the session feel like it was actively testing