Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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Redmond, WAPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call, then after the online assessment I got pulled into a standard AWS loop.

The OA phase included DSA-style coding plus leadership-principle alignment and a work-style / simulation component, and it felt pretty time-boxed. After that, my interviews followed the familiar pattern: multiple rounds where I wrote code in a shared environment, explained my thinking as I went, and answered behavioral questions tied back to Amazon’s leadership principles.

Across the technical rounds, the coding questions were LeetCode-medium level overall. One prompt involved LRU-style caching, and I also saw a dynamic-programming medium that I wasn’t able to fully solve; I ended up

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