Amazon Interview Experience | SDE-1 Intern | DSA Round + Gen-AI Round

Hi everyone,
I recently interviewed for the Amazon SDE Intern role on campus. Sharing my experience.

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Timeline

• 19 Feb 2026 — Online Assessment
• 16 April 2026 — Interviews
• 25 April 2026 — Result (Rejected)

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Online Assessment

Total Questions: 2

• Q1: Monotonic Data Structure (Stack/Queue)
• Q2: Binary Search on Answer

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Round 1 — DSA

Started with introduction, discussion about skills, interests, and tech stack.

Questions

1. House Robber (variation)
2. House Robber II (variation)

Solved both within ~45 minutes. Explained approach and did dry runs.

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Round 2 — GenAI + DSA (Same Day)

Behavioral + AI Discussion

• How do you plan your day?
• What are your interests?
• How much do you trust AI?
• What do you use AI for?
• Have you solved problems using AI?
• Which AI tools do you use?

Also discussed my projects and tech stack.

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DSA Questions

1. Aggressive Cows (variation)

2. Group Similar Strings

Problem: Given an array of strings (all anagrams), two strings are similar if they are identical or can be made equal by one swap. Return number of groups.

Example: Input: ["tars","rats","arts","star"]
Output: 2

Approach

• Used DSU (Disjoint Set Union)
• Compared pairs to check if they differ in at most 2 positions
• Union similar strings

Was able to build the logic, but couldn’t complete coding within time.

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Result

Rejected (25 April 2026)

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Takeaways

• Implementation speed matters a lot
• Practice DSU problems thoroughly
• Be prepared for AI-related discussions
• Binary Search on Answer is very common

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Hope this helps.