Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Tel AvivPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a take-home assignment, which set the tone: this wasn’t going to be just quick coding under pressure.

After I submitted it, I moved into two online interviews. These rounds combined technical problem-solving with system-design-style questions, and they also had space for discussion of my prior experience and how I approached engineering challenges.

In one of the interviews, I was asked to solve LeetCode-style problems—specifically a conceptual tree-related question. Alongside that, I answered multiple behavioral questions that were clearly meant to map to Amazon Leadership Principles, with a strong emphasis on using STAR-style stories. The overall difficulty felt like it depended on the

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