Interview Amazon 1

SDE 2. April 2025.

Candidate Info - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scortier/
Link - https://youtu.be/mfuHYMYNqns?si=zuvrQfDeh5jQR8HG
Application Type - Recruiter Reach out.

📅 Interview Format & Timeline.

Recruiter share the OA. OA 3 hours to complete. 2 DSA Question(Binary Search and DP) H. Got the result in next day.

2 DSA Round, 1 System Design, 1 Bar Raiser.

🧠 Interview Questions Breakdown. Level - M+.

Round 1 - Binary Search(M) and DP(H). Code + DryRun + Time and Space.
Round 2 - String Manipulation and Graph.

💎 Design System. Level - H.

Only like Design YouTube.
You have to come up with the functional requirement, non-functional requirement, small capacity and working design then optimize.
When drawing the HLD interviewer will stop and go deep dive in one part. Don’t stop him. Generally the design round the interviewer stop and you continue the design and when they ask for one thing or hint take it properly. Not providing the detail of that part will lead to rejection.

📶 Bar Raiser Round.

It can be DSA or System Design based on the interviewer.
In this case it is System Design.
Design BookMyShow - Deep dive in one part like what will happen when a single user book only one seat.

🙋‍♂️ Candidate Experience.

Highlight - In system design if you are not able to convince the interviewer with your design and the trade-offs then you are rejected.

DP and Graph are Medium and Hard level. Leetcode medium in 15 mins and Hard in 30 mins.
System Design do you know the open source software and how well you can use it in the system.
Behavioral Round and give more stories and different stories that you have said in other rounds. It will give them more data points to validate.
System Design Practice as much questions as possible.

✅ Outcome - Accepted.

Salary = 60-65LPA.
Base = 40-45LPA.
Joining = 20LPA.