Applied for Amazon SDE 1 opening through referral in March, 2025. Got OA link after week or so.

OA

• 2 LC Medium - Solved both completely
• Other sections related to work-simulation questions

Got interview selection mail on May 15.
And had interview scheduled on May 22.

Interview 1

• Started with some introduction.
• First question was Find Eventual Safe States with some tweaked language.
• Firstly, I didn't expected graph question coz in most past interview exp i read, asked some array, linked list or heap questions.
• Second, I didn't understood question correctly. After some clarifications, I went to solve.
• And went to some weird hard approach, wasted too much time in discussing approach and coding.
• Was not able to solve for all cases.
• By then, only 10 minutes were left.
• Interview got me second question as Search in Rotated Sorted Array.
• After some thinking, was able to tell approach.
• But had no time to code.

It was very disheartnening for me to get failed so badly after getting interview call after so long wait. And, Got reality check to practice DSA daily. Regret, I didn't touched DSA since a year :(

Hope, it helps to future interviewees!!

PS: 2024 Grad
Have exp of 1yr