🧭 My Amazon SDE-1 Interview Timeline (2025) [AUTA]

I'm thrilled to share that I received an SDE-1 offer from Amazon 🎯.
Here's a detailed breakdown of my journey, from application to offer:

📌 Application & Online Assessment
📅 April 3 – Applied for the role

📅 April 6 – Received OA invite

📅 April 10 – Completed OA (5-day window)

Online Assessment Structure:

✅ 1 hour – 2 DSA questions (medium, LeetCode-style)

✅ 2 hours – Work Style Assessment

✅ 1 hour – Behavioral Assessment

📅 April 15 – OA cleared ✅ & received an interest form to proceed

💻 Interviews Begin
📞 May 10 – Got a call confirming I’ll be moving to the next round

📍 First Interview – May 13
Round Type: DSA

2 Binary Search problems:

🍌 Similar to Koko Eating Bananas

🧮 Range Frequency Query in an array

📍 Second Interview – May 24 (Originally scheduled on May 23, rescheduled)
Round Type: DSA + Leadership Principles (LP)

1 Graph/Matrix BFS problem (similar to Rotten Oranges)

LP questions: Conflict resolution, ownership examples

📍 Third Interview (Bar Raiser) – June 10
Round Type: LP + DSA

🔁 DSA: Disjoint Set problem (Union-Find logic)

🎯 LP Questions:

A time when you failed

A time when you missed a deadline

Discussion around my current project architecture & flow

✅ Offer & Joining
📅 June 16 – Got the call from Amazon 🎉

Initial joining date: Late July

🔄 Asked for extension due to notice period → rescheduled to August

🧠 My Prep Strategy
🔁 LeetCode – Daily DSA grind

📄 Striver DSA Sheet – Topic-wise coverage

🧠 Mock Interviews – Used GPT and Claude for behavioral + coding mocks

🧩 Focused on Binary Search, Graphs, Union-Find, and BFS/DFS

🙌 Final Thoughts
If you're grinding right now — stay consistent.
Even when it feels slow, you're building momentum.
Mock interviews, structured prep, and reflection made all the difference for me.

My BackGround :
Tier 3 collage
currently working in a service company
almost 11 months of expirence
2024 graduate.