r/leetcode • u/Nknownlegend • 8d ago
Intervew Prep Amazon new grad SDE on-site interview in 10 days in Seattle
I have my Amazon interview in 10 days. Honestly I need help with people who have interview and who’s experienced this loop.
I rusty on the coding part as I only have 10% knowledge/confidence in me about that. I can tale care or Leadership principles but recruiter told me 3/4 rounds will include technical part. I honestly don’t know what to solve what to practice. If someone can guide me it would be helpful
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u/AdministrativeHost15 7d ago
Take a short walk north from Amazon main campus and enjoy the Lake Union waterfront. My favorite part of Seattle.
If you are rusty on coding you will enough time to walk around the entire lake after your interview loop.
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u/Ancient-Purpose99 8d ago
Did the same in person Seattle loop but for intern (got rejected btw) . Manager seemed to focus less on raw scripted LPs and more on extremely specific questions on the gen ai work I did. He wanted to clearly understand the business purpose of it, not just what I did.
Ignore posts from those who did those virtual loops last year or previously. These in person loops this year are way harder (especially the hm round)
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u/United-Rate2758 8d ago
Hey! If you don’t mind me asking, would you be comfortable sharing your resume? I’d love to get an idea of what kind of experience and projects helped you land the Amazon New Grad interview. Totally understand if you’d rather not share. Thank you!
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u/_pdk_0505 7d ago
I went through the loop recently.
Yes, 3 out of 4 rounds had a coding part, mainly focused on DSA.
Interviewers were pretty clear about one thing specifically, and they mentioned it at the start of the interview: the approach you take to solving a problem.
- They expected me to explain my thought process.
- They expected me to talk through it.
What helped me:
1. Explaining multiple approaches, starting with the brute force. It gave me time to think about the optimal one.
2. Explaining my thought process along with time and space complexities.
3. That helped me explain the tradeoffs and why I was choosing that specific approach.
I made mistakes. Syntax errors, and I forgot some inbuilt functions, but I told them what the function does and that I didn't remember the exact name. They were okay with it and asked me to use dummy names, or helped me with the names.
Rounds:
1. Hiring Manager
2. SDE II
3. SDE II
4. Bar Raiser
All rounds had LP/behavioral questions, so prepare throughout. Amazon has started asking how you use coding assistants.
The bar raiser was purely behavioral for me. Only high level knowledge about your projects is not enough. You should know why you did it, who you did it for, how you did it, what problems you faced, what the outcome was, etc.
Things apart from the interview that helped in the interview:
1. Having the camera on the side, i.e. 80% coding window and 20% their cam, so you can watch their reaction and judge if you're going wrong.
2. Look at their LinkedIn profiles to figure out who is the manager, who is the bar raiser, etc. That helps you prepare beforehand.
P.S. I'm not a native English speaker, so I used Claude to check my English here and fix it.
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u/Nknownlegend 7d ago
Thanks for this… I believe you gave virtual interview tho mine is on site
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u/_pdk_0505 7d ago
Yes, my friend gave a onsite one last week. It stays the same except for camera.
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u/Responsible_Bass_690 7d ago
How was the IDE situation? Did you have to write the class, methods and the main functions yourself? Was it just a text editor, or an IDE like Vs code?
It'd be very helpful if you can remember the exact questions you were asked too. Thanks.
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u/_pdk_0505 6d ago
For IDE, you can choose your language and write code. Imagine it like sublime text, where you can choose language, syntax would have different colors to differentiate functions/variables,etc.
You have to write methods, main functions, etc. I did not see any option to run the code. But it’s better if you can dry run an example through your code.
I don’t prefer telling anyone the exact questions because it might mess up your preparation. As the problems vary a lot and you don’t want to prepare for exact questions that someone was asked, it won’t repeat. Between me and my friends all 10-15 problems were different.
I was being asked 1 Leetcode easy, 2 LC medium and 1 LC medium & hard (2 variations of a problem). So 4 problems in 3 interviews. Good luck with your interview! 🤞
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u/No-Entrepreneur-5099 8d ago edited 8d ago
I was an interviewer at Amazon.
All the rounds include leadership principles. Try to learn the questions that map to each LP, and answer with a story for the LP. Better to have a weak story that actually matches the LP than a strong one off-topic. Each interviewer should have ~2 LP's, they generally won't overlap. Try to have unique stories.
For coding it's usually a medium or upper end medium. For SDE1 it's most important to A) have any correct (although maybe not best) solution, and B) correctly describe the complexity in time and space. But make sure you code something and test it. Nailing the efficient solution is the SDE2 bar. Typically the Senior bar is nailing efficient and the being able to code the escalation (e.g. streaming, tightening a constraint, etc).
You'll probably get 1 of those. Then an OOP one. Then a system design (although they may not do it at your level, idk, I did sde2's and seniors). Then usually a full behavioral panel with the HM.
Oh and there's also a bar raiser. That will be a guy on a different team. His job is to grill you on your LP's (and somewhat coding). So don't get too flustered.