Amazon Software Development Engineer -I interview questions
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Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
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Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Amazon (Pune) in May 2026
Interview
Four rounds of interviews, starting from DSA, some LLD( included designing a leaderboard and file system pwd and cd functions, GenAI use cases in testing and debugging, leadership principles
Each interviewer discussed about past experiences, interesting projects/achievements. Overall a good interview experience
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Question 1
Design a leaderboard for players
Should allow new score entries, deduplication
Discussion on scalability, clean code and extensibility
Discussion on input parsing
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
Interview
Technical assessment into a work life simulation, then final loop interview (3 consecutive interviews, 2 technical then 1 behavioral).
Scheduling issues that delayed my final loop for over four months, into more scheduling issues splitting interview times.