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Interview Experience Post - linkBackground Role / Level: SDE 2 (L5) Location: Bangalore, India Total experience: 2.5 years Education: BTech and Masters from tier-1 colleges Current CTC: ₹30,25,000 Offer breakdownComponentAmountFixed base₹42,00,000 /

Hi everyone,I interviewed with Amazon a couple of weeks ago for a Data Engineer role requiring 1+ years of experience. I wanted to share my interview experience in case it helps others prepare.Round 0: Technical Assessment This was a 90-minute online

Amazon SDE-1 (Fixed Term Contract) Interview Experience (2.5 YOE)I recently interviewed for the Software Development Engineer-1 (Fixed Term Contract) role at Amazon India.Online Assessment (OA)The Online Assessment consisted of two parts:DSA Coding A

I recently interviewed for the Amazon SDE Internship after clearing the Online Assessment (OA). I hope this experience helps future candidates prepare.Online Assessment (OA)The process started with an Online Assessment consisting of DSA and coding qu

I have recently given Amazon OA for sde1, I passed 6/15 test cases for the DSA question, it was a hard sweep line problem, I passed 6/6 test cases for the code debugger round and have done well in work simulation and work survey round. Do I have chan

The BQ questions included: a tight deadline, criticism I received, and how I handled a very ambiguous requirement. There were follow-up questions that dug into technical details, but they did not grill me on my resume.For BQ, you must prepare GenAI-r

Amazon Package Dependencies | DFS | Same as Course Schedule IIThis question has appeared in slightly different Amazon interview forms.Refer: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/1453430/amazon-phone-interview-by-anonymous_user-eq6m/ https://leetcode.com

Had and interview for Sde 1 at amazon 1st round DSA question: https://leetcode.com/problems/maximal-square/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/2nd round DSA question https://leetcode.com/problems/count-good-nodes-in-binary-tree

OA: https://leetcode.com/problems/text-justification/description/ Coding Round: https://leetcode.com/problems/implement-trie-prefix-tree/ (This with like list the products/words starting with a prefix) LLD: Calculate fees for stocks,bonds etc. Each t

Round 1: OA ClearedRound 2: DSA one question related Binary Search similar to koko eating bananas one question related to find median from data stream 2 LP questions Solved two questionsRound 3: LLD Design Amazon music search User can search by songs

Part 1: DSA question Question similiar to https://leetcode.com/problems/house-robber-ii/Part 2: AI Based Round Repository based question: was given a code repository and AI model with guardrails were given some test cases which were failing based on

Question 1:Amazon Web Services has n servers. The cache optimization power of the ith server is power[i]Same as Leetcode problem,https://leetcode.com/problems/sum-of-total-strength-of-wizards/Question 2Full Stack Coding question involving AI agent. D

Applied for SDE II at Amazon. Virtual round (~60 min): 1 coding + 1 LP.Coding: Number of Atoms (LC 726) Clarified input + edge cases, explained approach, then coded the stack-of-maps solution (push a map on "(", on ")" multiply popped map by the coun

From Online Assessment to Offer I recently completed the Amazon interview process for an SDE role and wanted to share my experience. Hopefully, this helps others preparing for Amazon interviews. Timeline November: Completed the Online Assessment (OA)

Hey everyone! I recently finished the OA for the Amazon Software Development Engineer 2026 (US) role (Job ID: 3177934). I applied twice, once early on and again on Feb 11, 2026 after getting an email to reapply. One thing worth mentioning is that I'v

Reading interview experiences on LeetCode Discuss helped me a lot throughout my preparation. Seeing how others shared their journeys, timelines, interview structures, and learnings helped me prepare in a more structured way.So here's my turn to give

Hi I gave intreview in Amazon recently for SDE-3 position. Round1 : variation of this https://leetcode.com/problems/add-two-numbers-ii/LL Round: Given multiple items with dimensions (length, width, height) and multiple boxes with dimensions (length,

Joined AMAZON as SDE-2 some time ago. Here is my interview experience:-Round 0 [OA] leetcode hard DSA questions fixing bug in a codebase Round 1 [DSA] Zig zag traversal of binary tree Graph Multi-Source DFS with Memoization question 2 LP question Rou

Compensation Company: Amazon Title/Level: Software Development Engineer II (SDE II, L5) Location: Hyderabad, India Base Salary: ₹43,00,000 per annum Signing Bonus: ₹18,00,000 (Year 1) | ₹13,00,000 (Year 2) Stock Grant: 200 RSUs over 4 years (Vesting:

Hi Everyone, this community has given me a lot. It's time for the payback. I am sharing my interview experience for L5 SDE II interview I recently gave at Amazon Gurgaon. I will try to be as precise as possible with the experience.I applied directly

Hi everyone,I recently completed the Amazon SDE-2 interview loop for India (HYD). I’m sharing my experience here since reading these posts helped me a lot during my own preparation.👤 Background Experience: 4.5 years Current Role: SDE-2 at a major glo

Recently interviewed for Amazon SDE2 role. Sharing the interview flow and questions asked.Interview Process: Coding Round Managerial / Leadership Principles Round Hiring Manager Round (HLD focus) Main focus areas: DSA Scalability Performance Customer

Background~2 years of experience in FinTech Tier-2 college ~4000 DSA problems solved over the years Used to read a lot of interview experiences during college, so posting mine here hoping it helps someone.How it startedI came across an opening posted

Amazon | SDE II (L5) | Hyderabad | Offer Accepted Education: B.E. (Non-IIT), Tier 2 College Years of Experience: 2 years 11 months Prior Experience: Service Based Company Previous Compensation: ₹15 LPA fixed + ₹2.5 Lakhs (PB) Offer Date: May 2026 Com

Hello, I recently attended one of the Amazon interview drives on site in Bangalore. Two of my rounds (HLD and Coding DSA) were held on site and I was told that the remaining 2 rounds will be set up virtually.Questions asked were : Google Drive / Drop

Role: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET-1) Education: Tier-2 Engineering College, Karnataka Mode: Off-campus Platform: Amazon Careers Portal📌 Round 1: Online Assessment (OA) The first round was an Online Assessment conducted on a private te

I recently went through the interview process at Amazon for a SDE 2 Backend role and wanted to share my experience. There were 5 rounds in total — including DSA, system design (HLD + LLD), and a Bar Raiser round. Hope this helps others preparing for

Last month I've given SDE-II Interview at Amazon. Below is my interview experience for same.Application Directly applied on career portal Got OA next day. Completed same day Got Interview call next day and scheduled first round 1 week after that OADo

Hi Everyone , I've recently given an Amazon OA , and looks like the format of the amazon OA's are changes. There are two questions in my OA.Question One - DSA - 40 min Medium to Hard DSA question.Question Two - AI Assistant Coding Round - 60 minWe ar

Role: SDE Intern Opportunity: On-Campus Hiring Location: Bengaluru, India (most probably) Process: OA + DSA Round + Problem Solving / GenAI FluencyOnline AssessmentTime Limit: 70 minutes Question Count: 2 (Additionally, Work Proficiency Test was also

Role: SDE Intern Opportunity: On-Campus Hiring Location: Bengaluru, India (most probably) Process: OA + DSA Round + Problem Solving / GenAI FluencyOnline AssessmentTime Limit: 70 minutes Question Count: 2 (Additionally, Work Proficiency Test was also

Hi, This was the question asked to me today in AWS phone screen round : You are given n tasks. Each task has:A type (string/character) A list of dependencies (other tasks that must finish first)Rules:Each task takes 1 unit of time to execute. Tasks o

Just completed my Amazon SDE Online Assessment. DSA/Coding rounds: Cleared all test cases successfully. Backend/problem-solving section: Only passed 2/6 test cases. The DSA part went really well, but I’m unsure how much weight Amazon gives to the bac

I recently went through the Amazon SDE interview process, and here’s a breakdown of my experience.Round 1: DSA (2 Problems) 1️⃣ Minimum Operations to Reduce an Integer to 0 Solved using an optimal approach Focus was on choosing the right strategy (bi

I got 15/15 test cases passing on the coding portionThen debugging (This is the new fullstack app backend debugging part with AI assist) I only got 2/6I think I did nail the Amazon LP and work simulation...I did see that people who did poorly on the

Round 1 (Problem Solving and GenAi Fluency) Next Greater Element Variation (Brute to Optimal along with Time Complexity and Dry Run) DP on Stocks, max 2 transactions variation (Memoization to Tabulation) Round 2 (Projects and Problem Solving) Dis

So today in our college we have amazon sde intern OA occured where we got 2 coding style questions and 4 leadership principle questions that are entirely doable and based on thoughts tbh.For coding question we got 2 question and every candidate havin

Hi everyone, I recently interviewed for the Amazon SDE Intern role on campus. Sharing my experience.Timeline 19 Feb 2026 — Online Assessment 16 April 2026 — Interviews 25 April 2026 — Result (Rejected) Online AssessmentTotal Questions: 2 Q1: Monotoni

Hi all , Recently I appeared for Amazon virtual Inteview for SDE2 position. So sharing with community .Applied on career page, recieved OA link after few weeks and then Inteview calls after 1 or 2 weeks.Round 0 : Online Assessment 2 hard Question ,

Education: MCA (Top NIT), 2024 Batch Experience: 1 year 7 months Current Role: SDE, American ExpressTimeline:1. Online Assessment (OA): 28 February 20262. Round 1 (Onsite – 13 March 2026) Data Structures & Algorithms Leadership Principles 3. Round 2

Had 3 rounds — here are the key problems asked:Round 1: Longest island → perimeter + coordinates (DFS/BFS) Minimum arrows to burst balloons (Greedy - intervals) Round 2: Convert BST → height-balanced BST (Inorder + recursion) First missing positive (

Amazon SDE Interview Experience (April 2026)Online Assessment (OA) Coding: 2 Medium–Hard DSA questions Round 1: DSA (Onsite) – 6th April 2026 (1 hour) Search in a Sorted and Rotated Array https://leetcode.com/problems/search-in-rotated-sorted-array/

Background:Education: Tier 1.5 NITExperience: SDE @ Big 4Timeline: OA in Jan, final result in April.The Experience: This process was, for lack of a better word, just like my ex. I dealt with significant communication gaps, scheduling errors, and long

Hi everyone, I finished my loop interviews at amazon india for sde2 role last week. I called the recruiter today to get the feedback, she said a meeting is scheduled next week for all the interviewers to get collective feedback. Folks working at amaz

Recently gave Amazon SDE1 interview (4 rounds) came out of most rounds thinking this went fine but result → rejectedR1: Linked list + trees looked simple… then edge cases started hitting R2: Heap problem
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OA: 90 mins for two questions. Given: populationOFCity: [5,6,1,4,3] String: "01110" arr.length = string.length string[i] == '0' indicates the city i with populationOFCity[i] is protected.At max you can move any protection to left by one. Return the m

Hey everyone, I have been recently offered SDE2 offer at Amazon and wanted to share my interview experience.Recuriter reached out to me on LinkedIn in the first week of March and cleared OA by weekend.After clearing the OA, I was scheduled further ro

In-person interviews at Amazon office.Round 1: DSA First problem was a standard LCA.Second problem was more interesting — you are given a list of words. You have to start from the smallest length word, and at every step you can add a single character

Round 1: (Technical round, Feb 4th)Q1) It is similar to Cheapest Flights Within K StopsQ2) You are given a list of power sources, where each source has a certain amount of power, and n machines.Each machine must be assigned power from only one source

I recived OA link in late feb, then onsite rounds were scheduled for first 2 rounds.round 1 : DSA alian dictonary sliding window maximum LP feedback : positveLLD : design log4j + lpfeedback: neutralthen when asked about feedback, i was asked to give

I just finished the Amazon interview loop, and it is definitely a different beast compared to other Big Tech interviews. The biggest thing to realize is that they don't just care about your code; they are obsessed with their Leadership Principles (LP

Amazon Alexa 3P Team – Onsite Hiring DriveRecently attended an onsite hiring drive for the Alexa 3P team at Amazon. The process included an Online Assessment followed by onsite rounds. For me, only two onsite rounds were conducted. HR mentioned they

Hey folks, I recently completed my interview loop with Amazon (SDE-2) and received an offer. Sharing my experience below:Interview RoundsRound 1: DSA 2 standard LeetCode-style problems Focus on clean implementation and edge cases Round 2: HLD Social

You can find Amazon OA and interview experiences here.Timeline Jan 18: Application submitted Mar 02: OA Mar 09: Under review Mar 10: Received VO survey Mar 17: VO scheduled Mar 23: VO1 Mar 25: VO2 Mar 27: Offer Interview Experience VO1The interviewer

Went through the Amazon SDE-2 interview loop recently.Round 1 was supposed to be HLD, but it got rescheduled due to unavailablity of Interviewer and then just never happened.Round 2 was DSA - Started with LP discussion for 20-30 mins and after that

Online Assessment (OA) Coding: 1 Easy and 1 Medium DSA question Work Style Assessment: Standard Amazon Leadership Principles (LP) questions (Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree)Round 1: DSA (onsite)Technical: Detonate the Maximum Bombs Follow-up: Var

Hi everyone,I received an interview call out of the blue on March 4 and completed my Round 1 on March 6.Interview experience: DSA: Q1: Binary Search problem Q2: Simple BFS traversal on a tree LP round: Decent (around 3/5) Overall, the interviewer

I interviewed with Amazon for SDE-2 for their Prime Video team in India. Sharing my experince here.Round 1: Online Assesment. This round had 2 LC Hard DSA questions along with some Amazon Leadership primciples and System Design quetsions. This was 90

Status: SDE2 at Mid-sized Tech Experience: 4 Years Position: SDE2 (L5) at Amazon Date: February 2026 Online Assessment (OA)Two coding questions + Work Style Simulation. Question 1: Variation of Merge Intervals. Question 2: Graph/Dijkstra

Hi I recently had my Amazon SDE 2 interview. Location Bangalore No Offer But I want to share my experience, it was terrible experience though. It's been 1 month and I got the response now. DSA Interview scheduled at 10 PM IST Interviewer joined 30 m

So i had attended Amazon SDE intern OA on 17/03/2026 (on campus) and these were the 2 questions i gotQuestion 1: Warehouse Robots with ThresholdProblem Description You are given an integer array arr of size n, where arr[i] represents the threshold of

What are my chances for Amazon SDE 2 if aced online assessment and phone screening round (not sure if these rounds matter to the final consideration) probably strong no hire in lld (had a bad day) dsa solved 1 medium problem but gave only brute force

hey there , i have amazon interview lined up in the next two weeks, i had asked the recuritor on the call regarding the structure of the rounds , and strangely , she said 2nd round is going to be a LLD round , any advice for this? what to prepare? TI

Will keep it short. There were 5 rounds in the process.1st OA: 2 medium/hard DSA questions2nd DSA Round: 1st question → Sliding window optimized approach (Brute force: recursion/DP). 2nd question → 2D DP. Verdict: +ve3rd Round (LLD + DSA): Designed a

I had applied directly for an SDE 2 opening on the Amazon Careers portal.Online Assessment2 Hard DSA questions. Don't remember the questions. Passed 15/15 for the first one and 12-13/15 for the second one.System Design questions on DB choices, batch

I interviewed for L5 SDE for India and completed 3 rounds - the last round was on Jan 27th with the HM. I felt it did not go well. I haven't heard any updates since then and no BR was scheduled and the status has been changed to the below. Does this

Hi everyone, i have my final round of interview at Amazon for SDE1. Anyone who has previously appeared for interview or Anyone from Amazon, can you please hel me out what to prepare , how to prepare and most important how should I be confident? How t

I was given these two problems:Question 1Question 2If anyone was able to solve these questions then please share the solution here. Thanks!!

So I have an upcoming interview for sde 2 role amazon and interview mail says that this round will be The interview will be competency-based, focused on Amazon's Leadership Principles.does this mean JUST LP or LP and coding round

Round 1: Online Assessment (90 Mins)Amazon has moved away from "template" questions. Both problems required complex mathematical observations. Q1 (Hard): A variation of Maximum Score from Performing Multiplication Operations. It required a 2D DP appr

Hi Everyone,Giving back to the community as you guys have helped a lot.Onsite BLR office F2F :Round 1 (System Design - F2F):This was taken by the HM. Was a very chill guy and I felt he was genuinely listening to my answers. First half was LP's and AI

Today i got a call from Amazon HR that march 17 we are expecting to attend Interview (In person) but Location not confirmed. can we expect it for sure or again they will postpone? is there any one on same page?...

Hi everyone,I have an upcoming GenAI Fluency round with Amazon and wanted to understand how to best prepare for it.If anyone has gone through this round recently, could you share:The type of questions askedThe level of GenAI knowledge expectedAny top

On Campus Opportunity (Tier 1 non-IIT)Hello everyone. I recently got selected by Amazon as an SDE Spring Intern, and I wanted to share my interview experience with everyone.Total Rounds : 3 (1 OA, 1 DSA round, 1 Gen AI Fluency round). Stipend : 1.1 L

Amazon SDE II Interview Experience 2026 — AFFS Pune (All 5 Rounds + Bar Raiser) [Full Breakdown on Medium]Company: Amazon Role: SDE II Team: AFFS (Amazon Fulfillment Financial Systems) Location: Pune, India Year: 2026 Result: Not SelectedJust complet

Current total exp - 6.5 yrsPhone Screen(1 hour) Problem: Partition to K Equal Sum Subsets (LC Hard). Gave sorting in asc order then using two pointer approach. We both were not able to find where it will fail, but we knew it will fail :-) Final appro

Amazon SDE Onsite Interview Experience (5 Months Experience) – Need Advice on Bar Raiser RoundGot a mail for the onsite interview, and a form was shared to choose the location (Bangalore/Hyderabad). After filling out the form, I got a call from HR as

Hi everyone, i gave my amazon oa around 22 dec, then i got an email around 29 jan hr will contact with me for interview and told me to fill survey form, then ghosted me , no interview call , got a mail in 23 feb that i will have offline interview of

Hi there, I have a virtual interview for SDE intern in amazon, someone made the proccess recently and knows what to expect? someone remembers questions that you have been asked for this role? Thanks!!

I am currently interviewing for amazon SDE - 2 and last round is Bar raiser. My recruiter told me it will be problem solving and coding round, but i see people having HLD/LLD/DSA & LP asked in this round. What should i focus most on, assuming i didn'

Hey Community,I Recently attended Amazon SDE 1 hiring process and received offer confirmation from HR. Interview Experience: Amazon Interview ExperienceAbout me: (YOE - 1.8 years)Amazon Comp: (Standard SDE 1 Package)I am confused if to take the offer

I recently went through the interview process for the Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II) role at Amazon (Chennai). Sharing my experience to help others preparing for similar roles.Online AssessmentThe process started with the standard

Bhai, honestly, if you’re from a college like MITRC Alwar, you already know the vibe. For us "tier-3" folks, the dream of reaching Amazon feels like trying to catch a train that’s already left the platform.But as a 2026 passout, I just cleared the SD

Hi everyone,Sharing my full interview experience below. I’ve also included timelines since many posts here discuss them.TimelineApplied: March 2025 (via Amazon Careers)Online Assessment: 5th December 2025 Standard Amazon-style OA (don’t remember the

All rounds had 2-3 questions based on Amazon leadership principles.Round 1 - 2 DSA questions: 1 -> Search in rotated sorted array 2 -> Variation of next greater elementRound 2 - LLD: Design an order processing engine to handle multiple orders where o

I have been reached out for SDE 1 AUTA intrest by Amazon Recruiter via linkedin. After completing my OA which has coding, workstyle and LP based assessment this my interview experience with timelineRound 1 (Feb 4 | Onsite): Got interviewed by a L6 En