Amazon Software Development Engineer(SDE II) interview questions
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3 rounds, 1 dsa 2 system design rounds. Leadership principles were also discussed during the interview. The dsa round was medium leetcode. You are expected to give the optimal approach.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON)
Interview
The interview process consisted of four rounds in total. There was one system design interview and three coding interviews. Each round lasted 60 minutes and included approximately 20 minutes of behavioral questions focused on Amazon Leadership Principles
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Question 1
They asked me to design a category system and explain how I would implement filtering on top of it
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Aug 2025
Interview
The interview process consisted of four non-eliminating rounds. Two rounds focused on DSA problems involving graph traversal and tree-based questions. The other rounds covered system design, including high-level and low-level design of BookMyShow and low-level design of an LFU cache.
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Question 1
In each round I got the questions regarding leadership principles