Amazon University Talent Acquisition, Software Dev Engineer I Interview experience.

Background

• Education: Tier 1 IIT (CSE), CPI: 8.25
• Experience: 8 months

Application Process

• Applied via Amazon's career website.
• Received OA within 2 days.
• Completed OA in 5 days.
• HR scheduled interviews 4 days after OA completion.

Interview Process

Round 1: 7/4/25

• Format: Introduction followed by 2 DSA problems.
• Problems:
  • Binary Search Problem: Similar to Capacity To Ship Packages Within D Days (https://leetcode.com/problems/capacity-to-ship-packages-within-d-days/)
  • Delete Node from BST: Standard BST node deletion problem (https://leetcode.com/problems/delete-node-in-a-bst/)

Round 2: 11/4/25

• Format: Introduction followed by 2 DSA problems and 2 behavioral questions.
• DSA Problems:

  • Topological Sort Problem: Implement a topological sort algorithm to solve a problem similar to the Course Scheduler problem.

  • Minimum Absolute Difference Problem: Given two arrays and a variable X, find the minimum absolute difference abs(X - a - b), where a is an element from the first array and b is an element from the second array.

• Behavioral Questions:
  • Experience About a Blocker in a Project
  • Anything Done Out of Responsibility

Round 3: 21/4/25

• Format: Introduction followed by 1 DP problem and 2 behavioral questions.
• DP Problem: Similar to Path with Maximum Gold (https://leetcode.com/problems/path-with-maximum-gold/)
• Behavioral Questions:
  • Tell me a time when you received critical feedback from a PM
  • Tell me a time when you learned something new on your own in a project

Key Takeaways

• DSA Focus: Emphasis on time and space complexity.

Final Verdict

• Outcome: Received an offer for SDE I at Amazon on 30th April.