Amazon SDE-1 Interview Experience | 2025 | Offer

Hi,

I wanted to share my Amazon SDE-1 interview experience, hoping it helps those preparing for their upcoming interviews.

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Application

Applied via: Referral

Applied in: Mid-April 2025

Got OA: Within 2 days

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Online Assessment

The OA consisted of:

1. 2 DSA questions
2. Amazon Workstyle Assessment
3. Work Simulation
4. Leadership Principles based MCQs

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Round 1 – Technical Interview

Mode: Virtual

Panel: Two interviewers

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• Started with 2 Leadership Principle questions.

DSA Questions:

1. Similar to Rotten Oranges (LeetCode) but tweaked heavily with a big story-based setup.
2. Diagonal Traversal of a Binary Tree, with multiple follow-ups testing deeper understanding.

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Got a call the next working day that my next round is in the same week.

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Round 2 – Technical Interview

Mode: Virtual

Panel: Two interviewers

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• Started with 2 Leadership Principle questions.

DSA Question:

• Similar to Course Schedule and Course Schedule II problems but with many follow-ups testing corner cases and constraints.

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LLD Question:

• Problem hinted at using a design pattern. I discussed and implemented it using the Decorator Pattern, which seemed to make the interviewer happy.

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Received an email after 10 days that Round 3 (Bar Raiser) was scheduled around June end.

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Round 3 – Bar Raiser

Mode: Virtual

Panel: Two interviewers

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This round was purely Leadership Principle and scenario-based questions with extensive follow-ups to every answer.

They tested situations from all 16 Amazon LPs, so being well-prepared with structured STAR responses is crucial here.

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Got very positive feedback in this round.

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Result

After 5 working days, I received the offer from Amazon for SDE-1.

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Please upvote if this helps. :)