What's the Amazon SDE 1 hiring process?

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confused29

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confused29
Mar 7 21 Comments

I recently applied for a SDE 1 position and got sent an email inviting me for the online assessment. It is a 105 min 2 question coding portion, 15 min work style survey, and 5 min feedback survey.

If I pass this, what are the other rounds? Is there a SDE work simulation online assessment as well?

How many rounds are in the onsite?

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  • IBM / Eng
    narutard_6

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    narutard_6
    This may be team dependent, but I just went through the on sites and received an offer.

    There were 4 interviews after the OA. All covered LP’s very heavily and 3 of them had LC medium (1 was borderline hard). HM Interview was strictly behavioral.
    Mar 7 6
    • IBM / Eng
      narutard_6

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      narutard_6
      Definitely try to have 2 examples for each LP. They will probably ask you the same question over multiple interviews.

      It’s okay to repeat one of your points for an LP so don’t freak if you get asked the same question a third time.
      Mar 7
    • I actually got an offer for a cloud support engineer 1 before so my LP’s are good. Can I just reuse those/update some of the ones I feel like need it?
      Mar 7
  • Visa
    dshrute

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    dshrute
    For non new grad roles, after OA is a 1 hr technical screen. After that is onsite which is usually 4-5 1 hour interviews back to back
    Mar 7 0
  • Amazon
    luvkanye

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    luvkanye
    I had a 4 interview loop after the OA.
    2 LC medium/hard, 1 OOP, 1 System Design. For system design I’d recommend looking at popular products/websites systems at a high level. This is the interview that levels you in case of non-new grad L4.
    Mar 7 9
    • Also I did not realize there would be design questions for SDE 1, any tips resources on that specifically?

      Leetcode I am less worried about rather then design.
      Mar 7
    • Amazon
      luvkanye

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      luvkanye
      Ik there is a blind 75 list. Just search for it here. But I didn’t look at any specific list during my time. It’s just what I’m doing now.

      For sys design, you’d have to explain something like use lambda for this feature/component, need xyz stack for web serving, how to handle caching and for what reasons. Basically know your cloud computing concepts. If you kill this round you get L5. I knew the basics because i used AWS extensively in previous job, hackathons, and personal projects.
      Mar 7
  • AMD
    kUED54

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    kUED54
    After this you’ll typically have a tech screen (a 45-1hr coding interview) and an onsite (four rounds, in my experience 3 coding (2 algos + 1 design) and 1 behavioural)
    Mar 7 0
  • Amazon
    uSsV24

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    uSsV24
    In one word shitty. They are dying and desperate to hire.
    Mar 7 0