Southwest Airlines Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial recruiter step to line everything up, my process quickly turned into technical conversation with the team.

I had a coding interview that felt pretty normal for the role, and alongside that I was also questioned on AWS. The style of the technical part leaned toward understanding how I reasoned rather than trying to watch me solve an extremely hard problem while stressed.

Then I moved into panel formats where the discussion broadened. I talked through my resume without live coding, and AWS, K8s, and Docker came up as key topics. The questions were often framed as “tell me how you’ve done it,” and the depth sometimes veered into how you deploy resources, how micro-service patterns work, and what it

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