Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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San Luis Obispo, CAPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a set of interviews that felt unusually uneven.

In one of the sessions, the behavioral portion started with a noticeably low engagement level—the interviewer rushed through questions and didn’t really follow up, and then the technical part took over.

The technical round was still a LeetCode-style coding challenge where the directions felt unclear at first. Once I got aligned, I was able to solve it, but the overall interaction made it harder to know whether I was communicating in the “right” way beyond just finishing the solution.

In another similar experience for a new-grad-focused track, I had multiple coding rounds in a single day and

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