Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

The process started with an online assessment that mixed coding with behavioral questions tied to those leadership principles. A few days to weeks later, I moved into the in-person rounds where the first parts often felt like behavioral—mostly structured examples meant to show ownership, customer obsession, problem solving, handling challenges, and delivering results. I kept answering using a Situation–Task–Action–Result style because that structure seemed to matter.

Then the technical side kicked in. Across my coding-focused interview(s), I had multiple LeetCode-style problems that ranged