Hi everyone,\nI wanted to share my interview experience for the SDE 1 Role at Amazon.\n**Internship Experience**: 6 months\n**Full Time Experience** : 5 months\n**Batch**: 2024\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n**Application and Online Assessment (OA)**\nApplied on: Nov applied to multiple Job Ids with referral and without referral\nReceived OA Mail: 26 th November 2024 (with a 5-day deadline)\nOA Details:\nTwo DSA Questions (70 mins):\nWork Style Assessment: 3 hours\n\n\nAfter OA on 29 th November i got a form  from Amazon to go further with my candidature\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n**Interview Rounds**\nRound 1: DSA Only (16th December 2024)\nAfter clearing the OA, I received a call from HR on 13th December for scheduling my first interview on 16th Decemeber.\nThis round was conducted by an Senior SDE \n\n\nInterview Flow:\nThe interviewer introduced himself and asked me to do the same.\nDSA Questions:\nFirst Question: It was to design a Datastructure to do a task which was easy but tricky Question it was based on ArrayList/LinkedList\n\nSecond Question: Question was related to Backtracking although it was not straight forward Question , the answser was \nusing standard Backtracking approach\n\nAt the end, the interviewer asked if I had any questions.\n\n\nResult: Passed \u2705\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nI received a call from HR on same day after an hour , and she scheduled my Round 2 in Afternoon on same Day.\n\n\nRound 2: Coding + LP (16th December 2024)\nThis round was taken by another SDE 2 \n\nInterview Flow:\nThe interviewer introduced himself and asked me to introduce myself.\nI was asked two DSA problems in this round:\nFirst Question: Question was related to contigous subarray and sliding  window\n\nSecond Question: This was related to Trie And Strings about uique prefixs\n\n\nFor **both Questions Explaining the approach ,Writing the Code ,Explaning the Dryrun of the code and TimeComplexity** was Important\n\n\nThis was followed by two Leadership Principles (LP) questions.\nI answered both based on my internship and full time experiences,\n\n\nResult: Passed \u2705\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nRound 3: Bar Raiser (19th December 2024)\nI received a call from HR on 17th December for scheduling my final  interview on 19th Decemeber.\nThis round was conducted by a Software Development Manager.\n\n\nInterview Flow:\nThe interviewer outlined the interview structure.\n1 DSA Question and Rest  Leadership Principles Questions \n\nDsa Question :This question was related to Maps and Strings medium level\nFor **Dsa Explaining the approach ,Writing the Code ,Explaning the Dryrun of the code and TimeComplexity** was Important\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFinal Status: Selected \uD83C\uDF89\nReceived a mail from the recruiter week later and was offered the role.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHope this helps others preparing for Amazon\u2019s SDE 1 role!\n\n**Tips from my experience**\n\n**Explain the approach clearly:**\n      Break down the problem\n      Share your thought process\n  \n  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n**Ask for clarification when needed:**\n      If stuck, don\'t hesitate to request hints\n      Ask questions to better understand requirements\n\t\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n**Show step-by-step dry runs**\n      Use example inputs\n      Explain expected outputs\n  \n  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n**Explain complexity:**\n      Analyze time complexity with proper Big O notation\n      Explain space complexity\n      Justify the analysis\n\n\n\n

Hi everyone,\nI wanted to share my interview experience for the SDE 1 Role at Amazon.\nInternship Experience: 6 months\nFull Time Experience : 5 months\nBatch: 