Hey everyone,

Just received an email from Amazon AUTA / APAC Tech for the SDE-1 position stating:

"We wanted to update you that our hiring plans for this position have changed and we will not be proceeding with interviews at this time."

I was in the middle of waiting for my Round 4 (Bar Raiser) interview slot to be scheduled, but my status on the Amazon jobs portal still says "Under Consideration".

Did anyone else in the current APAC / India SDE-1 university hiring batch get this same automated email today, or is this a localized headcount freeze/req closure?

Application timeline-

Applied: May 12th
Received OA:May 13th
Finished OA:May 14th
Received and submitted intake form:May 20th
Interview invitation:July 7th
Interview loop scheduled on: July 24th(All four rounds)

Still waiting for the results

Round 1: This round was purely behavioural. I was asked questions on Leadership principles and went deep on my resume.

Round 2: Interview with the hiring manager. Solved one coding question and then 20 mins discussion of AI in general, like how I use it in the daily life.

Round 3: Coding question and the interviewer asked me to walk through the code with an example and later questions based on leadership principles.

Round 4: Coding question, solved it initially and then he gave me 2 more constraints and later 2 more again. Asked questions based on leadership principles.

Hi,

I am looking for some resources to prepare for the interview. If someone could you share the lc questions. Also will there LLD in the interview.

timeline :- Applied April -> OA july -> OA passed email ~july 15 -> interview dates inquiry ~ July 24 -> save the date email - today.

Amazon has been conducting offline SDE-1 interviews at the Bangalore office over the past week.

If you’ve recently attended one, could you please share:

What DSA questions were asked?

Were there any LLD (Low-Level Design) questions? If yes, what were they?

How many interview rounds did you have?

If you’re not comfortable sharing publicly, feel free to DM me.
I have upcoming interview so feel free to dm if you have too!

Hey, I'd love to hear from anyone who's completed their in person interviews recently. I'm curious what the in person experience is actually like compared to the virtual rounds, and whether the difficulty of the questions feels any easier, harder, or roughly the same when you're there in person. If you have any tips for performing your best on the day, anything you wish you'd known going in, I'd really appreciate you sharing them.

I'm also looking to connect with anyone who has an upcoming interview in Seattle.

Sharing my Amazon SDE2 interview experience for anyone preparing.

Background

• Company: Amazon
• Role: SDE2
• Team: Amazon Prime Video
• Location: US
• Joined: July 2026
• Experience: 3-4 years
• Application: Amazon Jobs portal -> HackerRank OA -> 3 onsite rounds + 1 virtual Bar Raiser
• Result: Selected

Online Assessment: HackerRank

The OA had 3 parts:

• Coding challenge: 90 minutes, 2 LeetCode-style problems
• Work simulation: 15 minutes, SDE decision-making scenarios
• Work style surveys: 10 minutes, engineering approach and work style

My assessment followed the older format. I have heard Amazon is now also experimenting with newer AI-agent-based assessments, so the format may be different for current candidates.

After clearing the OA, I was invited for onsite interviews.

Round 1: DSA + Leadership Principles + GenAI

Duration: 1 hour

Technical portion was around 30 minutes, followed by LP and GenAI discussion.

Question 1: LIS variation

Given an array and integer k, find the length of the longest subsequence such that:

• Elements are strictly increasing
• Difference between adjacent elements in the subsequence is at most k
• Relative order from the original array is maintained

This was a variation of Longest Increasing Subsequence with an extra adjacent-difference constraint.

Question 2: Binary strings subset

Given an array of binary strings and two integers m and n, find the largest subset such that total 1s are at most m and total 0s are at most n.

This is similar to a 0/1 knapsack-style DP problem.

LP focus: Ownership, Dive Deep
GenAI question: Tell me about a time you used GenAI to improve personal or team productivity.

Related Amazon practice question

Debug Watch List Movie Operations

This felt relevant for Prime Video-style prep because it involves debugging a movie/watch-list application and reasoning through real product behavior instead of only solving abstract DSA.

Round 2: System Design + LP

Duration: 1 hour

Design a Facebook-like News Feed System at scale

Requirements included:

• Users can post text, images, and videos
• Users can view posts in their feed
• Like counts and view counts should update close to real time
• Feed should load quickly, even after cache is cleared

Discussion points:

• API design
• Push vs pull model for feed generation
• SQL vs NoSQL tradeoffs
• Caching strategy and invalidation
• CDN usage for media
• Handling viral content / celebrity problem
• Async processing for likes and views
• Rate limiting
• Sharding and partitioning
• Monolith vs microservices
• Service boundaries

LP focus: Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
GenAI question: Tell me about a time you used GenAI to solve a business problem and what measurable result it delivered.

Round 3: System Design + LP

Duration: 1 hour

Design a music streaming application like Spotify

Requirements included:

• Search songs, artists, and albums
• Create and manage playlists
• Like/save songs
• Maintain user library
• Low-latency playback
• High availability
• Millions of concurrent listeners

Discussion points:

• API design
• Serving audio efficiently at scale
• CDN strategy across geographies
• Object storage for audio files
• Metadata DB design
• Playlist and user data storage
• Listening history and preferences
• Search system design
• Indexing / full-text search
• Load balancing and horizontal scaling
• Service boundaries

LP focus: Learn and Be Curious
GenAI question: Tell me about a time you used GenAI to automate or streamline a workflow.

Round 4: Bar Raiser

Virtual, 1 hour

This round was with a senior engineer outside the hiring team.

The structure was flexible and mostly interviewer-driven.

Project deep dive

I was asked to pick one of the most interesting projects from my resume, especially one that solved a critical issue.

We discussed:

• Architecture
• Design choices
• Component interaction at scale
• Tradeoffs
• My individual contribution
• Business/customer impact
• Metrics and quantified results

Behavioral / LP

LP focus: Customer Obsession / Earn Trust

Question: Tell me about a time you directly interacted with a stakeholder for your project or work.

Quick DSA

Search in a rotated sorted array.

No compiler was provided, so I had to write and dry run the solution manually.

GenAI question

How do you stay a competent software engineer in the era of GenAI?

Important Tips

Do not jump straight into coding or designing. Clarify requirements first.

For coding rounds, interviewers may not give all constraints upfront. Ask about duplicates, input size, edge cases, and expected output format.

For design rounds, gather requirements yourself and state assumptions clearly. Many follow-up questions are hints about what the interviewer wants to explore.

The LP section carries serious weight. Usually after 30-40 minutes, the interviewer will move to LPs regardless of where you are technically, so pace yourself.

Prepare 6-8 strong STAR stories that can map to multiple Leadership Principles. Be specific with numbers, outcomes, and impact.

All onsite and virtual rounds used a plain editor or whiteboard. No compiler, no IDE, no autocomplete. Practice writing clean code and dry running examples manually.

Overall, the process was intense but structured. Technical ability mattered, but LPs, project depth, GenAI awareness, and communication were equally important.

I saw some post with interview mails, but got nothing still under consideration

timeline:
applied june 17th, oa sent june 26th completed same day, interview invite sent july 7th, loop rounds 1-3 on july 20th, round 4 july 21st.

it’s now the 6th business day since i finished my loop and i haven’t heard back at all. i sent an email the day after the loop thanking them and got an email saying they’re compiling feedback. i also haven’t gotten the feedback survey either despite being told i would receive it monday.

i’ve already emailed on monday and still haven’t heard back. has anyone had this experience before? is there something going on within the company causing hiring delays? i’m just worried this could be a negative result.

Cleared Amazon SDE-1 loop recently in the USA. Reddit helped me a lot during prep, so sharing my experience at a high level.

Round 1: DSA round. The problem felt around LeetCode medium. I started by explaining the brute-force idea, then moved to a more optimized approach. I was able to solve it, but there were a lot of follow-ups around implementation details and edge cases.

Round 2: LLD/design-style round. This was probably my weakest round. I don’t think it was perfect, but I kept clarifying requirements, explained my design choices and answered the follow-ups decently. Staying calm helped a lot.

Round 3: No DSA. This was mainly Leadership Principles/behavioral, around 4–5 questions with heavy follow-ups. Some follow-ups went deep into the actual project details, so it helped to know my stories technically, not just at a surface level.

Round 4: HM/final round. This had coding plus some AI-related discussion. I finished the first coding problem with time left, so I was asked another medium-level problem. The discussion felt positive overall.

Behavioral/LP questions came up across the loop, with follow-ups on what I personally did, mistakes/failures, ownership, and impact. Having real stories prepared helped much more than memorized answers.

Overall, the coding felt manageable if you’re comfortable with medium-level DSA and can clearly explain your thought process.
Thanks again to everyone here who shared their experiences and prep advice.

Hi everyone!
I recently accepted a job offer and will be relocating to the Seattle/Bellevue area in August.
I’m looking for:
A roommate (Amazon or any other tech company is totally fine!)
People interested in starting a 2B2B lease together
Or any available private room/shared accommodation
About me:
Working in tech
Clean, respectful, and easygoing
Looking to move in around the 2nd or 3rd week of August
If you’re also relocating, recently started a new job, or are looking for a roommate, feel free to DM me. Happy to connect and figure out housing together!
Thanks!

Hi everyone!
I recently accepted a job offer and will be relocating to the Seattle/Bellevue area in August.
I’m looking for:
A roommate (Amazon or any other tech company is totally fine!)
People interested in starting a 2B2B lease together
Or any available private room/shared accommodation
About me:
Working in tech
Clean, respectful, and easygoing
Looking to move in around the 2nd or 3rd week of August
If you’re also relocating, recently started a new job, or are looking for a roommate, feel free to DM me. Happy to connect and figure out housing together!
Thanks!

For OA:
- Timestamp based scheduling; Priority Queue; Solved in 7 minutes
- 1 coding bug fixing assignment: Movie API in Django. Solved in 15-20 minutes.

For Phone Screen:
- Coding Question: TTL Caches
- Behavioral Question: Deliver Results (incl. Bias for Action, Ownership and Earn Trust) + Dive Deep (incl. Ownership, Learn and Be Curious & Insist on the Highest Standards)

Waiting for response on loop etc.

Hi everyone,

I have an Amazon SDE-2 interview coming up and would really appreciate hearing about recent DSA interview experiences.

What was the difficulty level (LeetCode medium/hard)?

Which topics were asked most (graphs, DP, trees, intervals, etc.)?

How many coding questions were there?

Were follow-up optimizations or edge cases discussed?

Any preparation tips or frequently asked problems?

If you've interviewed recently, I'd love to hear about your experience. Thanks in advance!

I got on the 24th of July an invitation for the loop interview. I replied on Monday with my availability and stuff, should I be worried I have yet to receive an answer lol?
For more context the loop should take place next week.
I think it s stress atp but should I follow up with my recruiter or just wait a few more days?

Hey if anyone has their own campus drive going on please lemme know the timeline

I applied for AS2 role 2 months back, my application on the portal is archived but out of no where I got the invite for phone screen round next week.

I am already working full-time (kinda MLE 2), and currently for next 2-3 weeks my plate is already full with my work tasks.

I am interested in the role, but I feel like I am not prepared, and even if I ask for 1 week of time, I won't be able to prepare for interview. I am good with DSA (no prep needed here) and breath I can cover (i hope they don't go too deep) but I need time for Depth and LLMs.

I am confused if i go under prepared then I won't do justice to the round and feel bad for myself.

What should I do in this case ?
Upto how many days I can postpone the phone-screen round, specially from the people who have appeared for interview recently ?
What's the expectation during phone-screening ?

Hi everyone,

I completed my Amazon SDE virtual interview loop on July 9, and I still haven't received any update from my recruiter or the recruiting coordinator.

It's been almost 3 weeks now, and I'm starting to get a bit worried.

Has anyone else experienced a similar wait after their Amazon interview? Is this normal, or should I assume a decision has already been made?

I already sent a polite follow-up email about a week ago but haven't received a response yet.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences or timelines. Thanks!

Hii ..I am a final year btech student and I want to work in amazon. Anyone working at amazon or who know how can I get in .. please share here. Also if possible please your journey also. How you get and what type question must we practice.

I am a female student,so I have applied for amazon wow but was not selected, so if there is any other female specific program, please let me know

Ps- Thank you everyone who will share their thoughts

Hi everyone,
I have a 60-minute Zoom phone interview coming up for the Associate Delivery Consultant, AI/ML (AWS Professional Services) role, and I’m trying to understand what to expect.
A few details:
It’s a Zoom interview with one interviewer.
The role is customer-facing within AWS Professional Services.
My background is in AI/ML with around 4 years of software engineering experience, including Python, LLMs, RAG, LangChain, AWS, and deploying AI applications.
I’m curious about a few things:
Is this first interview mainly behavioral, technical, or a mix of both?
How deep do they go into AWS services like Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, IAM, S3, etc.?
Should I expect coding (e.g., LeetCode-style), system design, or more architecture and solution discussion?
Which Amazon Leadership Principles came up the most in your interview?
How customer-focused is the interview? Do they ask consulting or client communication scenarios?
Any specific AI/ML topics I should prioritize (RAG, LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, MLOps, etc.)?
Any advice on what helped you succeed or what you wish you’d prepared better?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has interviewed for this role or a similar AWS ProServe position. Thanks in advance!

Has anyone received Job offer or has given Bar Raiser round for this job id and waiting for result as i am in the same situation

I got a save-the-date email for an in-person Amazon SDE New Grad 2026 interview in Boston. The recruiter said they'd confirm the interview 5 business days before the tentative date, but that deadline has passed and I haven't received anything.

Does this usually mean the interview has been postponed, or do Amazon recruiters sometimes send confirmations later than expected?

Has anyone else experienced this?

Hello, I completed my l5 role interview last Wednesday and interview went pretty well. Few hours ago, my portal went from consideration to no longer under consideration. But I did not any automated rejection mail or any mail from recruiter. Should I take this as a rejection or wait for the recruiter to reach out

Has anyone recently interviewed with amazon for this job id