Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I made it through the loop because my coding performance was solid, but I still got rejected afterward.

The feedback experience that sticks with me is that Amazon treated behavioral performance as a real differentiator—not something you can skate past with strong technical answers.

The loop showed that technical competency alone wasn’t enough. I remember getting a disagreement-with-a-manager behavioral question and realizing too late that my answer wasn’t quantified or structured enough to clearly map to what they were looking for. I used a generic approach rather than a tightly structured STAR-style story, and that became the problem. Even though I felt confident going into the decision, the

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