**Education** : MSCS (In Progress)\n**Experience** : 3 Years\n**Position** : SDE1 at Amazon (AWS)\n**LC Status** : ~700\n**Location** : Seattle, WA\n**Date** : Mar 2021\n\nI was interviewed for SDE2 role and was downleveled to SDE1.\n\n\n**--NDA--**\n\n**Application Process** : \nThe recruiter reached out to me over LinkedIn. We had an informal discussion about my past experience, career interests, expected comp, competing offers etc., I applied using the job link that he has sent and received the OA. \n\n**Online Assessment** : \nThe OA was over Hackerrank. There were 2 coding questions with each one requiring some written explaination about the thought process, time and space complexities. The questions were from the curated list of Amazon OA questions available on the internet. My code passed all the test cases for both the questions and I was contacted by the recruiter the next day and we had a discussion on the next step - Virtual Onsite. \n\n**Virtual Onsite** : \nI had my virtual onsite 10 days after I passed the OA. Interviews were 1 hour long with 15 minutes break after every interview. Each interview consisted of 20 minutes of LP based discussion.\n\n1.  **Round 1** : *System Design* - A typical distributed system design question. I am pretty sure I bombed this one.\n2. **Round 2** : *Object Oriented Design* - Started with some vague requirments. Asked questions and clarified the requirments. Came up with a simple OOP class. The interviewer kept on adding the requirments and I modified the code accordingly. I felt I did well in this one.\n3. **Round 3** : *Coding*  - A Problem on graphs with some follow-ups. I was able to solve the problem and was able to address the follow-ups. Later I was asked to write custom testcases. (I Couldn\'t find the question on LC). \n4.   **Round 4**  : *Coding* - A problem on Recursion and Memoization. I was able to solve and I walked through the code with an example test case. (I Couldn\'t find this question on LC either, definitely LC hard).\n\n**Result and Team Matching** : \n\nTwo days after the virtual onsite the recruiter reached out to me with the result. I was not offered SDE2 and was downleveled to SDE1 (expected). The next day I was matched with a team. I had a discussion with the hiring manager and they extended me the offer.\n\n[Compensation](https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1119534/Amazon-or-SDE1-or-Seattle)

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