Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

The total loop ran to eight rounds, and the second half shifted sharply toward evaluating my understanding and capabilities related to AI. It was hard to keep up with how fast the topics were evolving, and that threw me off in real time—there were questions I simply hadn’t considered, not because I couldn’t code, but because the area kept moving.

I had the sense that they expected deep fluency rather than general familiarity, and the “newness” of the technology was exactly what made it tough for me. By the end, I didn’t make it to an offer, and the rejection felt less about one missed step