Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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The process began with an Online Assessment (OA) featuring two coding challenges and a work style simulation. This was followed by a technical phone screen. The final round consisted of 4–5 virtual onsite interviews covering Data Structures & Algorithms, System Design, and a heavy emphasis on Amazon's Leadership Principles.
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Question 1
Design a top-K leaderboard system for a massive multiplayer online game
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Neu-Delhi) in Feb 2026
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Interviewer asked two problems one on tree to find LCA and another on graph which was easy and can be solved by bfs.
Q1. Find LCA of the given node in a tree
Q2. Find the number of steps to move from a start of 2 d matrix to end of it. It may have obstructions.
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5 Loop rounds, with design round and leet code style questions along with behaviorals where they test the leadership principles. Medium leet code questions, one of the rounds had brain teaser type of question
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