Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2025
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I got an interview invitation for a new grad SDE role after an OA and then I have a three round loop interview on a single day. I did well in all three rounds but unfortunately I haven't received an offer.
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Question 1
Round 1: This round was completely Behavioral the interviewer asked three question and I have answered those in STAR format from my previous experiences
Round 2: it was a mix of Algorithms and Behavioral the first 30min was a technical question and the interviewer asked me to design a generic xmlNode class in and it should be adaptable and can be used to create any kind of an xml document. It should also have a toString method implemented which will print that entire xml nodes in pretty print format with nesting and proper attributes for each tag. and then the last 30 mins was a behavioral he asked to question which related to the leadership principles and I have given my answers in STAR format.
Round 3: this was completely a technical coding interview the interviewer asked me two questions the first question was 703. Kth largest element from a stream. and Union find (Disjoint sets) question.
I took the OA and it was 3 hrs long, but fair. One leetcode easy and medium for the questions followed by a work simulation and a short behavioral survey.