Amazon US SDE 1 | Offer

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SDE 1US
April 18, 20256 reads

Summary

I applied for the Amazon US SDE 1 role, cleared the Online Assessment, and after three rounds of interviews focusing on LeetCode, Low-Level Design, and Amazon's Leadership Principles, I received an offer a week later.

Full Experience

Timeline

  • Applied January 2nd week without referral
  • Cleared OA February 1st week
  • Got interview call March 1st week
  • Gave 3 rounds of interview April 1st week
    • Round 1 - 1 Medium leetcode problem(top 10 in Amazon tagged). I was asked a lot of questions around this.
    • Round 2 - 2 LP + LLD which involved designing filter
    • Round 3 - LP round, standard LP questions(how I implemented my learnings outside work in work, conflict, unable to deliver something, how I solved a bug)
  • Got the offer a week later

Interview Questions (5)

Q1
Low-Level Design: Designing a Filter
System Design

I was asked to perform a Low-Level Design (LLD) exercise that specifically involved designing a filter system.

Q2
Behavioral: Implementing Learnings Outside Work
Behavioral

Discuss how you implemented learnings from outside of work into your work.

Q3
Behavioral: Conflict Resolution
Behavioral

Describe a situation involving conflict and how you handled it.

Q4
Behavioral: Unable to Deliver Something
Behavioral

Tell me about a time when you were unable to deliver something, and what happened.

Q5
Behavioral: Solving a Bug
Behavioral

Describe a situation where you solved a significant bug.

Preparation Tips

Advice

  1. Create around 10 stories such that these stories cover all LP questions. Twist and turn the story depending on the question.
  2. Take LP super seriously its basically 50% of the total 3 hours. Try to give mock for this.
  3. Do Amazon tagged questions religiously. TC, SC and data structure knowledge is very important. Just solving the problem won't help.
  4. Practise LLD by manually writing the code instead of just seeing someone's code. I killed this round so much so that the interviewer didn't even ask me any follow ups because my code was so expandable. Because of practise I had a sense of what he would be looking for and I designed thinking about what he might ask next. This will come naturally once you write atleast 12-15 LLD code.
  5. Time management is super important.

Hold on and believe. Its nerve wrecking but everyone gets a job.

I can't say anything more because of NDA

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