Amazon Graduate SDE 2025 Dublin | Rejection
Summary
I interviewed for a Graduate SDE position at Amazon Dublin and was rejected, despite solving all coding questions correctly. I suspect the issue might have been related to my behavioral answers, as I used examples primarily from college projects.
Full Experience
Has anyone experienced this? I'm a recent graduate with experience from college, part-time jobs, and internships. I had an interview loop with Amazon for an SDE position. I solved the questions correctly, and the interviewers agreed with my solutions. However, I think the issue was that I provided examples from my college projects during the behavioral section. Since it was a graduate position, I didn't think they would expect more. I'm unsure what went wrong, but I received a rejection despite writing three completely correct codes. Has anyone else gone through a similar experience?
The Tech Part
OA
Phone screening: find pairs with target sum (30 minutes)
3 interviews 60 minutes each First 30 minutes LP ( Cant remember the questions)
- variation of course schedule II
- API to implement find command ( solved with Trie)
- Unbounded set where each entry has expiration date and disappears once it is expired ( solved with min heap)
Interview Questions (6)
LeetCode 2214
Amazon SDE OA Discussion Question
Refer to the LeetCode discussion link for problem details.
Find Pairs with Target Sum
Given an array of numbers and a target sum, find all pairs of numbers in the array that add up to the target sum.
Course Schedule II Variation
A variation of the LeetCode Course Schedule II problem (Topological Sort).
Implement Find Command API
Design and implement an API that mimics the functionality of a 'find' command, possibly for file system search or string searching.
Unbounded Set with Expiration Dates
Implement an unbounded set data structure where each entry has an associated expiration date. Entries should automatically disappear from the set once their expiration date is reached.