I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Denton, TX) in Mar 2025
Interview
An online assessment contains coding questions and Behavioral. After one month got a mail saying I passed the assessment.
Then 3 back-to-back rounds covering DSA, technical questions covering the Amazon principles
Interview revolves around Data structure and algorithm, ther askes 2 dsa questions, plus some 2 behavioural question. Interview duration is one hour, to clear that round i have to solve both the question completely within time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given two lists of closed intervals, firstList and secondList, where firstList[i] = [starti, endi] and secondList[j] = [startj, endj]. Each list of intervals is pairwise disjoint and in sorted order.
Return the intersection of these two interval lists.
A closed interval [a, b] (with a <= b) denotes the set of real numbers x with a <= x <= b.
The intersection of two closed intervals is a set of real numbers that are either empty or represented as a closed interval. For example, the intersection of [1, 3] and [2, 4] is [2, 3].
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
1 hour interview with 2 leetcode questions with medium/ hard difficulty. The interviewer helps you if you get lost. Try to write optimal code. I got a variation of house robber question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Variation of house robber and another was about binary trees
Had a OA first, then two virtual rounds with engineers. Mostly LeetCode-style questions and one system design. Final round was behavioral, pretty focused on leadership principles. Overall, pretty structured but intense.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
had a question on implementing an LRU Cache from scratch. had to use a combination of a hashmap and a doubly linked list. Took most of the session.
SDE1 Entry applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 77% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE1 Entry roles take an average of 150 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a SDE1 Entry according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 21%
Presentation: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Other: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Skills test: 5%
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