I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2025
Interview
Standard interview process. Leadership principles,Leet code, system design. Medium questions alone were asked. The system design was surprisingly tough. There was a lot of focus on Amazon Leadership principle questions.
Interview includes 2 coding rounds, 1 system design round, and STAR-based behavioral questions. Focus on DSA, especially graphs and trees. Also prepare Gmail filtering, timestamp-based filtering, and related implementation concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Graphs trees star based questions filtering of emails and timestamps
I attended an SDE 1 interview at Amazon. The interviewer focused on data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving. I explained my approach clearly, optimized my solution, answered behavioral questions, and gained valuable interview experience.
Asked for intro, then 2 dsa question and 1 question on lp. Explain your thought process and start with brute force dry run it explain its tc and sc and theb jump on to optimised solution