Amazon SDE-II Interview Experience
June 25, 2025 · 22 reads
Summary
I interviewed for the Amazon SDE-II role, which included a Data Structures & Algorithms round covering both leadership principles and technical problems. I am currently awaiting a response from HR.
Full Experience
Round-1 DSA Interview
- Leadership Principles
- Tell me about a time when you didn’t meet the deadline and how did you face this?
- Tell me about a time when you proposed a solution and convinced your manager to agree with this?
- DSA
- Given a Binary 2D matrix, where each row is sorted. Find the row which has the maximum number of ones.
- Group Anagrams LeetCode-49.
Result: Waiting for HR response
Interview Questions (4)
1.
Tell me about a time when you didn't meet the deadline
Behavioral
Tell me about a time when you didn’t meet the deadline and how did you face this?
2.
Proposing a solution and convincing manager
Behavioral
Tell me about a time when you proposed a solution and convinced your manager to agree with this?
3.
Find Row with Max Ones in Binary Matrix
Data Structures & Algorithms
Given a Binary 2D matrix, where each row is sorted. Find the row which has the maximum number of ones.
4.
Group Anagrams
Data Structures & Algorithms