Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview experience

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HaifaPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter conversation, I got pulled into a practical technical interview that felt very oriented toward systems and testing rather than abstract theory.

The coding part focused on string compression, with a follow-up about doing the approach in-place using constant extra space. After that, the rest of the round shifted into a system-testing scenario: I was shown a simple hardware-style diagram with two systems, a MUX, and flash memory, and I had to explain how I’d test the behavior using the given APIs. There was also some discussion around locks and shared hardware resources, which made it clear they cared about correctness under contention, not just getting to a working implementation.

Overall, I felt the questions were practical and

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