Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through what felt like a classic AWS main-loop setup: four one-hour behavioral interviews with different team members.

Every interviewer evaluated how I demonstrated Amazon’s leadership principles using real-world examples, and the conversation repeatedly came back to ownership, customer obsession, bias for action, earning trust, and delivering results.

The process was purely behavioral, so there wasn’t a technical coding or design round where I could lean on algorithms or system design. Instead, the challenge was organizing my experiences into clear narratives that mapped directly to the traits they cared about, while answering follow-ups that tried to pressure-test the details.

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