Amazon Non Software Development Engineer interview questions

3 step process. 1st is a Online Assessment. If you study your LeetCode this is really easy. If you do well enough here you get moved to the phone screening. If you do really good on the OA, they move you directly to the on-site. 2nd is a phone screening. I was moved directly to on-site so I don't know how this goes. 3rd is the on-site interview. Which in my case was incredibly unfair. Before the on-site, you have a meeting with other candidates in which a recruiter tells you about how the interviews will go and what to look out for. At this meeting, we were told twice that SDE1's are not expected to answer System Design questions. However, exactly 4 days before my scheduled interview day, I was told to sign up for BlueScape, which is a tool that AWS uses for System Design questions. So I only had 4 days to study up on System Design questions as a SDE1. During the interview day, I was asked multiple behavioral questions alongside 4 coding questions. The coding questions were very straightforward, again if you study enough LeetCode you will be fine. One of my interviewers (who was at the SDE2 level), did not understand how recursion worked. Which was a massive red flag for me but okay, I was able to explain and test my answer no problem. The final question I received was a System Design question which I answered to the best of my ability given the time I had. I did not receive an offer. They didn't give me any feedback but I know for a fact that it was because my response to the System Design, which is why I feel like it was incredibly unfair. Why on Earth would you tell a candidate that they didn't have to worry about System Design, then add a System Design question 4 days before the interview? Incredibly unfair and I hope that other candidates don't looking for a SDE1 role don't have the same experience.

Stage 1. Call with Recruiter (one of the best, and probably the only good part in the whole process) Stage 2. Technical OA, medium/easy LC Qs on linked list and string array manipulation Stage 3. Virtual onsite (4 rounds) -- 1 interviewer who is not in the interviewing team. (Amazon LP and one easy sorting hits Q) -- System Design on Messenger (interviewer checked out after screen share did not work in Amazon chime. I used a notepad and pen. Later found out that browser needs to allow screen recording , which was not allowed by default in my new system). -- Behavioral round with manager on Amazon LP Qs and one long Q with a simple solution on OOP. The interviewer just copy pasted it and told me to read it and solve when only 15mins was left. -- one medium LC question (I used backtracking, interviewer was not impressed because I did not use Trie) 2/4 interviewers were one of the worst that I have ever been to because one was disrespectful, said "nice story" to my project experience which I was passionate about and had put a lot of hard work on. The other one had terrible audibility because of an accent like a bullet train and low mic quality, I had to ask several times to repeat, also dismissive behavior about all the working solutions I provided (DFS, BFS, backtracking). Giving this a neutral experience still because it seems to be a team specific behavior, and I think I could have still done better. Use the interview window to make sure you don't land in a toxic team.