Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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BerlinPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Once I passed the online assessment, my process moved into a standard set of follow-up rounds.

I ended up with three interviews in total, all after submitting the OA. The first round was heavily technical with an SDE-level focus, where I was asked two LeetCode questions and then pushed with follow-ups for optimization and better solutions.

The second round was all about leadership principles and behavioral depth with an engineering manager. It wasn’t just “tell me about a time,” it was a lot of follow-up probing that dug into how I made decisions and how I handled different situations. The third round blended leadership principles again with a lower-level design-style question, and

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