SDE at Amazon
- Difficulty
- Process took
- 6+ Weeks
- Rounds
- 4
- Format
- Remote
- Applied via
- Other
How it went
- Just stay relaxed, as the interviews are generally quite chill. Try to guide the conversation in the direction you’re most comfortable with, rather than giving the interviewer opportunities to ask questions outside your area of knowledge.
- Also, make sure not to bring up any topic for which you don’t have complete context or a solid understanding, as it could work against you if the interviewer decides to dive deeper into that subject.
What they would tell you
- Just stay relaxed, as the interviews are generally quite chill. Try to guide the conversation in the direction you’re most comfortable with, rather than giving the interviewer opportunities to ask questions outside your area of knowledge.
- Also, make sure not to bring up any topic for which you don’t have complete context or a solid understanding, as it could work against you if the interviewer decides to dive deeper into that subject.
How to prepare
- Make sure to be very thorough with DSA, and be prepared to provide detailed explanations of your approach. You should also expect a lot of cross-questioning. (You can be relaxed if you have covered most of the topics from Striver’s A2Z DSA Sheet.)
- For the System Design round as well, you need to have an in-depth understanding of system design concepts, as there will be many questions based on your approach. The interviewer may try to confuse you or test whether you are confident in your solution.
- Regardless of the round, always be prepared for Amazon Leadership Principle–based questions and be ready to answer them using the STAR method.
Their background
I have 1+ years of Full time work experience. Joined my current company as a Technical support engineer, and transitioned to a SDE internally.
Round by round
- 1
Online Assessment90 min
Online Assessment which was overall of almost 3.5-4 hours, including 1.5 hours of Coding round
- 2
Technical Interview 1 (DSA)60 min
Interview started with DSA questions. There were 2 DSA questions, both were of medium level. Then there were a few questions based on Amazon Leadership principles.
- 3
Technical Interview 2 (System Design)60 min
The interviewer started with a couple of questions based on Amazon Leadership Principles. Then there was s System design question, where I was asked to write the complete code (including the main function) for a notification request system.
- 4
Behavioral Interview60 min
The round was based on questions related to Amazon's Leadership principles. Questions like - Tell me about a time when... Interviewer was a very senior employee who has been working in Amazon since past 11+ years, and was from USA.
What came up
A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.