Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview questions

The first coding interview was unnecessarily and unexpectedly hard. It was some variation of a Leetcode Hard question, that too on the topic of Dynamic Programming, which is already more difficult than other topics.

Question: Q: What was the one thing that they asked you? Answer (Optional): They asked me to design a scalable system for a URL shortener. I answered by outlining the architecture, including database schema, load balancer, and hashing mechanism for generating unique short links. I also discussed how to handle edge cases and scale the system.