Status: 3 YoE, SE-2 at a company in Hyderabad
Position Applied: SDE2 at Amazon

Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn in May, I Asked for 2 weeks time for which he agreed.

OA round:
1.) https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1565781/amazon-oa-maximize-the-median-sum
2.) https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1759431/amazon-oa-sum-of-server-powers

Passed all test cases for both questions. Got a call the same day, asking to schedule next rounds which were 1 hour each.

1st Round: DS/Algo

• Behavioral questions (Leadership principles)
• https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock-iv/ variant
  Verdict: Hire (I was nervous but gave the working optimal code)

2nd Round: DS/Algo

• Behavioral questions (Leadership principles)
• https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-number-of-events-that-can-be-attended/ variant
  Verdict: Strong Hire (I gave optimal solution of this after discussing brute force approach)

3rd Round: HLD

• Behavioral questions (Leadership principles)
• Skype System Design ( Was mostly interested in chats and how chats will be stored/sent when receiver is offline)
  Verdict: Hire (Made a mistake in the end when discussing about DB schema)

Bar Raiser: LLD

• Behavioral questions (Leadership principles)
• Design Amazon address system ( how addresses of various customers will be stored, how this system will interact with warehouse system and website. All API calls definition was expected.
  Verdict: Hire (Had to be nudged at few places)

They are offering me SDE-1 as I needed handholding in Bar raiser round (with possibility to soon get promoted to SDE-2 based on performance)

Should I take it?