Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

After that, the process culminated in a multi-round loop that was explicitly built around Amazon’s leadership principles, using STAR-style stories as the backbone for how I answered.

In the loop, I experienced a lot of the same themes repeated at a higher level—behavioral questions tied to the leadership principles, and expectations that my examples showed ownership, decision-making, and structured thinking. The technical load still mattered too: the DSA work and system design fundamentals were present earlier, and then the later rounds pressed on how I connected my past engineering to the