RejectedSDE 2 at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 1-2 Weeks
- Rounds
- 5
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Company Website
How it went
Confidence Without Arrogance, present your solution with confidence but remain open to suggestions and alternative approaches.
What they would tell you
Confidence Without Arrogance, present your solution with confidence but remain open to suggestions and alternative approaches.
How to prepare
Key topics for DSA
- Trees (BST queries, LCA, closest nodes, etc.)
- Strings (pattern matching, manipulation)
- Arrays, Hashing, Sliding Window, Heap
Their background
I recently appeared for the Amazon SDE-2 onsite interview in Bangalore with 5.5 years of experience. The process included five onsite rounds, split across two dates, with a mix of DSA, system design, and Leadership Principles (LP) questions.
Round by round
- 1
DSA Round 160 min
DSA, where I was asked to encode and decode strings along with a couple of LP questions.
- 2
Low-Level Design60 min
The second round was LLD round, where I had to design a file management system capable of filtering files based on creation date and file owner, accompanied by an LP question.
- 3
Data Structures & Algorithms60 min
Given a Binary Search Tree (BST) and a set of query values, find the closest node in the BST to each query LP Questions: Why Amazon? How do you ensure your work meets both technical and customer needs? Describe a time you failed and what you learned.
- 4
High-Level System Design60 min
HLD round, where I designed a real-time notification system for stock price alerts and answered LP questions.
- 5
Bar Raiser60 min
Combined system design and DSA, where I presented the high-level design of my current project and solved a sequentially ordinal rank tracker problem, followed by an LP question.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.