RejectedSDE II at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 4-5 Weeks
- Rounds
- 3
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
How it went
LP stories matter
What they would tell you
LP stories matter
How to prepare
After four days I recieved generic rejection mail.
Their background
I have been working as a Software Engineer at a startup for the past 4 years.
Round by round
- 1
Online Assessment Test60 min
I got the OA link after 8 day i have applied Two DSA questions Q1 You have a grid that is shaped like a square and contains only zeros and ones. You are allowed to change at most one zero to a one. After you make this change, or if you decide not to make any change, your task is to find the biggest cluster of ones that are touching each other from the top, bottom, left, or right. Finally, you should tell me how many ones are in that largest cluster.
Q2 Tree Traversal
- 2
LLD60 min
Design a delayed task dispatcher, a system that takes functions and runs them after a fixed delay. and LP questions ,the interviewer asked about ownership and bias for action.
- 3
HLD60 min
Design a real-time collaborative document editor. Key Features:
- Live editing: See others’ changes as they type.
- History/rollback.
- Offline mode & conflict resolution.
- Role-based access control.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.