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Amazon SDE - II Interview Experience I had applied to this role about 6 months ago via a referral. I got the OA and I cleared it. The very next day, recuriter reached out to me and told me that I had cleared the OA. She asked me if I am interested in SysDev role instead of the role which I have applied for. I politely said no, to which she said that she would reach back to me. I waited for 2 days and I did not get any response from her. When I pinged her, she said that we cannot move forward with your profile for SDE - II role, if you are interested in SysDev role, I will schedule the rounds. I again politely said no and moved one. Now, Fast forward to 5 months, i.e last month, another recruiter reached out to me if I am available for interview next friday. I was confused, and I asked her if I am eligible for this role as the other recruiter said no. But, she was like, you are eligible, just let me know your availability. I said, I am available and she scheduled 2 rounds - DSA and LLD. Round 1(DSA): Started with Leadership principles, which went on for 40 minutes. Then he asked me if we can extend the interview by 10 to 15 mins, to which I said yes. Then he asked me a DSA Question. The question was to find the shortest path between two pieces in a chess board with obstacles. A classic BFS problem!!! I gave the BFS approach and he asked me why cant we use DFS. For which, we had a solid discussion around. The interviewer had a specific implementation in mind. For example, using a set for visited elements instead of using a boolean array. I quickly understood what he wanted and adapted to that. Round 2(LLD): Again, started with Leadership principles, which went on for 20 minutes. Then came the LLD question - Design a parking lot. I gathered the requirements and listed the classes with their behaviour and attributes. I also listed the design patterns to be used. Then he asked me to implement couple of methods in the design, which I did. Overall, this went well as well. Round 3(HLD): And again, started with Leadership principles, which went on for half an hour. The HLD question was to Design Leetcode(any online judge). I did not practice HLD a lot. I fumbled in this round, but somehow I managed to complete the design. Overall, this was an ok round. Round 4(Bar raiser): Yet again, started with Leadership principles for 20 minutes. Then asked a DSA question - Something like task scheduler where each task has dependencies. He asked me to implement a solution which ensures there is not task starvation - this means I shouldn't be using a queue for visiting the tasks while doing the topological sorting. He gave me a few clues and I was able to quickly grab those. The solution was to implement topological sorting using DFS. After a week or so, I got the hire call. Finally after being rejected by google and Microsoft, it was nice to get an offer. Microsoft Interview experience: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7015857/microsoft-swe-iii-hyderabad-by-anonymous-nt9n/ Google Interview experience: https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/6705226/google-swe-iii-interview-experience-hyde-e8d9/

* Base Salary: 12.0 Lakhs Per Annum * No stocks offered

Base salary: $193k RSU: $450k over 4 years Bonus: $35k Yearly bonus rate: 15% Team matching took 5 weeks

Base Salary: ₹23,00,000 Joining Bonus: ₹3,00,000 Relocation Assistance: Up to ₹75,000 Total CTC (Year 1)~ ₹28.75L (excluding ESOPs)

First Round: This was a BQ interview, likely with a "Bar Raiser." I was asked three questions related to Amazon's Leadership Principles (LP). Second Round: This round was a combination of BQ and Coding interview. The behavioral part was closely aligned with the Leadership Principles. Third Round: This was a fully technical interview, and I was given two medium-difficulty Leetcode problems. Overall, this round was the easiest, so the evaluations from the first two rounds must have been good.

* Base Salary: 18.5 LPA * Bonus: 3L (20%) * Stocks: 3.25L * Provident Fund: 72,000 * Mode of Work: Complete Remote

Role: L3, downleveled Base: 23L Stocks: 45k USD / 4 years (approx 8.5L per year) Joining + Relocation: 3.2L Team: Google Pay

Graviton Research LLC is offering a Software Developer (C++) role. Years of Experience: 3. Base Salary: 60L. Total Comp: 1cr. Other Perks: International outing, Uber credits, Gym membership.

Salary range for the fresher at Amazon in Bengaluru for Senior Associate (Non Tech Role kind of Business Analyst)

Company offer: New Relic Position: SDE-3 Base: 51 L Performance bonus: 6% of base ~ 3.1L Gratuity + PF: 3.5L

* Base Salary: INR 42,00,000 * Signing Bonus: INR 14,00,000 first year, INR 11,00,000 second year * Stock bonus: 200 RSU over 4 years (5%, 15%, 40%, 40%) * Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): INR 58,00,000 * Standard Amazon India Benefits

Company: Atlassian Role: Senior Software Engineer (P50) YOE: 11 Base Salary: 69 LPA Total Compensation: 69 LPA Location: Remote Signing Bonus: 3L Stock bonus: $100K (Vested in 4 Years)

* Role: SDE2 * Company: Rippling * Location: Bangalore * Base Salary: 49 Lakhs * Total Compensation: 66 Lakhs

* Base Salary: 8291700 * Relocation: 500000 * Signing Bonus: 400000 (year 1), 200000 (year 2) * Stock Bonus: $120K stock grant vested over 4 years * Bonus: Performance-based bonus up to 20% of salary every year * Avg bonus: 10% - 430000

Understand frequency maps is a must-have skill in string manipulation. They help break down problems that involve duplicates, anagrams, counts, or constraints like "at most K characters." - Track how many times each character appears. - Easily detect duplicates, anagram patterns, or sliding window constraints. - Can be used with arrays (for lowercase a–z) or hash maps (for general Unicode). Use collections.Counter or defaultdict(int) in Python Two-pointer + frequency map = sliding window power Reset map or shrink window when constraints break ⚠️ Rookie Mistakes to Avoid ❌ Not clearing frequency map between iterations ❌ Confusing string indexes and frequency counts ❌ Off-by-one errors in window size

* Base Salary: 40 Lakhs Per Annum * Previous compensation: 27 fixed + 4 variable (31 LPA)

* Role: Software Development Engineer 1 * Company: Amazon * Location: Seattle * Base Salary: 6 LPA * Total Compensation: 8 LPA * Interview Rounds: 4-5 rounds * Focus Areas: Data Structures and Algorithms, System Design

Salary: ₹42 LPA First year signing bonus: ₹20 LPA Second year signing bonus: ₹16 LPA Stock Bonus: 260 unit Year 1 TC: 45 + 45 + 2L ~ ₹64L Benefits: Standard Amazon benefits -> Internet, Insurance, Transport, Sodexo, Gym

Comp : 34 base + 26K USD/ 4

Previous compensation: 28 fixed + 4 variable (32 LPA). Counter offer: 40 Fixed LPA

* Around 20 LPA (All fixed) * 2 YOE * Location: Noida * Location preference: Delhi NCR but open for Bangalore

Stipend: 70,000 per month

JD given for this role was mostly involving machine learning, NLP Design, deliver, and maintain significant features in data pipelines, ML processing, and / or service infrastructure Optimize software performance to achieve the required throughput and / or latency Work with your manager, peers, and Product Managers to scope projects and features Come up with a sound technical strategy, taking into consideration the project goals, timelines, and expected impact Take point on some cross-team efforts, taking ownership of a business problem and ensuring the different teams are in sync and working towards a coherent technical solution Take active part in knowledge sharing across the organization - both teaching and learning from others

Received offer for SDE-1 position at Amazon Bangalore Office. I wanted to know what are some teams with good work culture at the Bangalore office.