Amazon SDE 2 | L5 | Bengaluru | Reject
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Posted
- 25 Feb 2026
Summary
I interviewed for the SDE 2 | L5 role at Amazon in Bengaluru and was rejected after two challenging DSA rounds, including an online assessment and a live DSA round with specific LeetCode problems.
How it went
R0: Online Assessment
I don't remember the actual questions, there were 2 DSA questions one of them being dp on graphs. Both were pretty hard.
R1: DSA Round
Q1 - https://leetcode.com/problems/cracking-the-safe/description/
Was not able to solve it
I asked the interviewer to give a diff problem (since she mentioned at the beginning that there will be two problems) and we can come back to this later but she said no and expectation is to solve both.
Q2 - https://leetcode.com/problems/most-stones-removed-with-same-row-or-column/description/
Was able to solve it.
is it normal to ask such type of hard problem which is not popular and expecting candidate to solve it in 20-25 minutes? I'm pretty sure most of the people in amazon itself won't be able to clear this round.
Questions asked (2)
- 01
Cracking the Safe
Data Structures & Algorithms · Hard
Open the problemDetailed problem description can be found at the LeetCode link.
- 02
Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column
Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium
Open the problemDetailed problem description can be found at the LeetCode link.