Hi All, here is my interview experience with Amazon along with the questions I was asked:

Status: New Grad from Top 25 Colleges in U.S.
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Location: NYC
Date: October 2021

Online Assesment
I was reached out to by a recruiter and was sent an online assessment with two problems. Don't exactly remeber these two problems but I'd say they were both LC Medium.

After the Hackerrank, I was sent a Work Simulation which is mostly behavioral and case study questions.

After passing, I was scheduled for the virutal onsite

Virtual Onsite
The onsite consisted of 3 45 minute rounds with 15 minute breaks in between. All rounds began with a brief introduction from both the interviewer and myself and also ended with time to ask a few questions.

1. ~15 mins of one LP question. ~30 Minutes of Coding.
   a. Tell me about a time you had a partner who was slacking on his end. How did you do to solve this? What was the outcome?
   b. https://leetcode.com/problems/rotate-list/ (Exact same problem)
2. ~15 mins of LP questions, ~30 minutes of coding.
   a. Tell me about a time when you were struggling to learn a new technology. How did you eventually overcome the struggle?
   b. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1196424/amazon-phone-interview-sde1 (Interviewer also added option for user to remove billboard ads)
3. ~15 mins of LP questions, ~30 minutes of coding. This was my hardest interview as the question was LC Hard.
   a. Tell me about a time that you had to learn something very quickly.
   b. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/344778/find-the-minimum-number-of-swaps-required-such-that-all-the-0s-and-all-the-1s-are-together (Interview wanted a sliding window solution)

I had the interview on a Friday and got the offer Tuesday the following week.

I was able to solve all the problems within the time limits except for the 2nd interview where I was 95% finished and the interviewer seemed satisfied.

I am super glad that I didn't get any Graph or Tree problems like most people. My advice would be to don't stress too much over the LP questions. The STAR method is useful but I wouldn't say it's necessary. Just make sure your stories have a great beginning, middle, and end. Have some enthusiasm when telling them aswell!

I can't really give any advice for the coding portion as Amazon seems like they randomly pick from a hat of what type of question they will ask. I would expect atleast one of them to not be a standard LC question but a System Design question or an Open-Ended technical problem.

Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll answer them as best I can. Goodluck!

TC: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1555798/amazon-sde-1-nyc/1137221