Got the offerSDE-1 [L4] at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 3-4 Weeks
- Rounds
- 4
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Company Website
How it went
Practice DSA Thoroughly
- Medium-to-hard problems on arrays, strings, graphs, trees, and dynamic programming. Make sure you can not only solve them but also analyze time and space complexity, dry-run examples, and discuss edge cases
What they would tell you
Practice DSA Thoroughly
- Medium-to-hard problems on arrays, strings, graphs, trees, and dynamic programming. Make sure you can not only solve them but also analyze time and space complexity, dry-run examples, and discuss edge cases
How to prepare
Keep LPs in Mind at All Times
- Especially for Work Style Simulation questions, frame your answers around Amazon’s Leadership Principles
Their background
SDE-1 @ Amazon | Bangalore, India
Round by round
- 1
Online Assessment60 min
The online test had few parts. First, there were 2 coding problems, both DSA-based, not too hard but time was tight Then came interesting Work Simulation where you go through mock email situations and rate responses based on how effective they are The final section was behavioral MCQs, again same principles
- 2
Technical Round 160 min
Started with some introductions and project discussion, mainly about what part I handled and what impact I had, then jumped into two DSA questions, pretty standard ones, Toward the end, the interviewer asked few things about my past work experience and tech stack I used
- 3
Technical Round 260 min
Interview started with introductions, followed by a few behavioral questions aligned with Amazon’s LPs, Interviewer gave two DSA questions, one kind of like Closest Divisors and the other Topological Sort based problem
- 4
Bar Raiser60 min
DevOps concepts from my resume, asked few LP questions & wrapped up with short discussion about my past projects and responsibilities
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.