Amazon SDE II interview Experience

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Oct 22, 2026

Amazon SDE II Interview Experience

Round 1: System Design + Behavioral

  1. Design an Examination System.
  2. Explain SOLID principles.
  3. LP: Taking Ownership.
  4. How do you use Generative AI in your engineering workflow?

Round 2: DSA + Behavioral

  1. Find the first unique element in a data stream.
  2. LP: Dive Deep
  3. LP: Invent and Simplify

Round 3: Bar Raiser — DSA + Behavioral

  1. Find an element in a row-wise and column-wise sorted matrix.
  2. LP: Deliver Results — Describe a time you drove a task to completion and created impact.
  3. LP: Learn and Be Curious

Round 4: Hiring Manager + High-Level Design

  1. Design a system that predicts a customer's issue using their previous Amazon orders and connects them with the appropriate support agent.
  2. How would you scale the chat service to handle sudden traffic spikes?
  3. Why would you choose EC2 for hosting the service?
  4. Why would you choose SQL over NoSQL?
  5. How would you handle auto-scaling, database consistency, and ACID transactions?
  6. LP: Earn Trust
  7. LP: Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit — Describe a time you disagreed with your manager's proposed solution.

All the Best!! This might help someone. I couldn't clear it, hopefully you will do.

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