RejectedSDE-2 at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 3-4 Weeks
- Rounds
- 5
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Company Website
How it went
- Make sure you practice regularly, deeply understand the projects you’ve worked on, and express your technical and design decisions clearly. Don’t forget that leadership qualities carry equal weight, so have solid stories ready.
What they would tell you
- Make sure you practice regularly, deeply understand the projects you’ve worked on, and express your technical and design decisions clearly. Don’t forget that leadership qualities carry equal weight, so have solid stories ready.
How to prepare
- System Design: Prepare for both LLD and HLD
- Practice dp problems
Their background
I had 5.7 years of experience Amazon SDE-2 Location: Bangalore
Round by round
- 1
Screening Round60 min
One Problem only This round assessed basic problem-solving and coding ability
- 2
Problem Solving Round 160 min
Efficiently managing intervals using priority queues and sorting Verdict: Strong Hire
- 3
Problem Solving Round 260 min
The second DSA round was more challenging, with two dynamic programming problems
- 4
Low Level Design Round60 min
Low-Level Design round tested my object-oriented design Problem: Design a cache system that can support different strategies like LRU and LFU, and implement one end-to-end
- 5
High Level Design Round60 min
Problem: Design a real-time leaderboard system for an online multiplayer game
- Display top K players overall based on cumulative score.
- Display top K players in the last 10 minutes based on live score updates. Self-verdict: No Hire (round tested large-scale distributed system design thinking)
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.