Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IrelandPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a mix of behavioral and technical content, but the coding piece was tough for me personally.

The behavioral portion was framed as star-style questions about my work and my school background, asking me to dig into specific examples and reflect on what I’d done.

After that, I got a medium LeetCode-style coding question. Even though it wasn’t described as the hardest technical problem, it felt fairly difficult to me because I didn’t have strong coding depth, so the technical round didn’t play to my strengths.

Overall it was a difficult experience, and it didn’t end with an offer. What I took away afterward was that even when the behavioral questions go reasonably well, the technical

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