Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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HaifaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews felt unusually technical and domain-specific, and they started to feel like they were probing my depth rather than just my coding basics.

I had rounds where the questions leaned into system design and infrastructure thinking, including distributed-systems style understanding and a strong emphasis on being able to explain tradeoffs, alongside DSA.

One of the sessions was very hands-on and spontaneous: it began with personal and English proficiency conversation, then moved into deep electronics and circuit topics like capacitors, inductors, and how Schmitt triggers work in CMOS. I was even asked to sketch an I-V characteristic and then, near the end, I was given another technical question on the spot.

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