RejectedSDE-1 at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 1-2 Weeks
- Rounds
- 3
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
How it went
- Honest About What You Don’t Know
What they would tell you
- Honest About What You Don’t Know
How to prepare
- While solving problems, avoid going through the solution before actually spending a lot of time in solving it yourself.
Their background
SWE at Edtech I applied multiple times at Amazon, I finally received an email asking me to fill out a hiring interest form. Things started to move quickly after that, and I was soon sent the link for the Online Assessment (OA).
Round by round
- 1
Interview 1 (Technical + LP)90 min
I handled two Leadership Principles (LP) questions and coding problem was same kind of Koko Eating Bananas.
- 2
Interview 260 min
A design problem that was a more complex variation of the Min Stack problem. My first solution (stack + map + priority queue) was flagged as too complex, so I simplified it, but in doing so missed out on a required functionality, my solution only returned the "size," not the full object with both size and id. I nearly reached the end solution but ran out of time, I felt that with just one more hint or a few minutes, I'd have cracked it.
- 3
Interview 3 (Bar Raiser)60 min
A couple of days after the second interview, I received an email saying that I had qualified for the second round and would now be going for the Bar Raiser interview.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.