Amazon SDE-1 AUTA Interview Experience

After clearing the online assessment there were 4 rounds, out of which first 3 were offline on the same day in Amazon Bangalore office and last bar raiser round was online.

Round-1: 2 DSA questions, had to code using pen and paper + 1 Behavioral
DSA questions: buy and sell stock; variation of number of islands
Behavioral question: Tell me about a time when you faced a challenge in any of your projects/internship experience.

Round-2: 1 DSA question + 1 LLD type question + 1 behavioral
DSA question: unique paths (DP)
LLD question: Design most recently watched tab for amazon prime service. Eg: If a user watches video1->video2->video3 in the order, recently watched function should return video3->video2->video1. Had to implent 2/3 functions for this.
Behavioral question: Tell me about a time when you did something out of your responsibility

Round-3: It was with the hiring manager, it had 2 DSA questions + Gen-Ai based questions
DSA questions: group anagrams; first non repeating character in array
Rest of the round revolved around resume based Ai/Gen-Ai questions as I had projects on these topics. The questions were asked with respect to how I would go on implementing RAG/LLM concepts in my existing projects/internship project.

Round-4: It was the bar‑raiser round held online. It had mainly 3 questions: Tell me about a time when you had to do a deep dive; Tell me about a time when you missed a deadline and how did you handle it; Tell me about a time when you had to learn something completely new while working on a project or anything

Final verdict: Selected

Timeline: 2 September OA then got offline interview availability form 2-3 times. 5th Oct i got offline interview call from HR and 8th Oct was the offline interview. On 14th Oct I got call that I had cleared the previous rounds and my bar‑raiser was scheduled for 22nd Oct. 3 days later i got call from HR that i had been selected.