I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2025
Interview
The first round was according round in that two questions who asked. Both were leetcode medium questions. After that another online assessment was there which evaluates your leadership principle skills .
Then comes the interviews there are a total of three interviews the first one focuses on DSA plus leadership principles .The second round follows the same pattern .
The third round is a Bar Raiser round that focuses heavily on leadership principles . On top of that, any coding question might be asked in this round as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leadership principle questions play key roll in Amazon interviews they are very interested in how you proceed with this questions so you should get prepared for these very well.
Interview includes 2 coding rounds, 1 system design round, and STAR-based behavioral questions. Focus on DSA, especially graphs and trees. Also prepare Gmail filtering, timestamp-based filtering, and related implementation concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Graphs trees star based questions filtering of emails and timestamps
I attended an SDE 1 interview at Amazon. The interviewer focused on data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving. I explained my approach clearly, optimized my solution, answered behavioral questions, and gained valuable interview experience.
Asked for intro, then 2 dsa question and 1 question on lp. Explain your thought process and start with brute force dry run it explain its tc and sc and theb jump on to optimised solution