Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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SydneyPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a technical routing-and-networking style interview that ran about 75 minutes.

The interviewer asked me to reason through BGP concepts across an iBGP and eBGP topology, including how paths could be manipulated and what different protocol/transport details imply in practice. The questions also touched TCP/IP fundamentals, specifically things like MSS and MTU, and how those choices affect behavior across the stack.

After that, the conversation shifted toward automation using Python. I was asked to connect the networking concepts to how I’d approach automation, then we moved into behavioral questions. The overall tone felt fairly direct and technical from start to finish,

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