Interview experiences
Real interview stories, retold from candidates' public write-ups: the process, the actual questions round by round, and what worked — with the original post linked.
Amazon · SDE I (New Grad, MS CS)OfferAmazon SDE 1 new grad loop: three online assessments, three interviews, offer in five days
A master's new grad went through Amazon's full three-part online assessment and three 45-minute virtual interviews. Every round opened with Leadership Principles questions before the coding began, and the offer landed within five business days.
Interviewed October 2019 · Seattle, WA, US
- Amazon · SDE I (New Grad)Offer
Amazon SDE 1 new grad interview: one OA, four back-to-back onsite rounds, offer
A fresher found the posting through a LinkedIn connection, cleared the OA within a week of applying, and faced a six-hour virtual onsite: four one-hour rounds where every behavioral answer drew three to four follow-up questions.
Interviewed January 2021 · Seattle, WA, US
Google · L3 Software EngineerOfferGoogle L3 software engineer interview: phone screen, four coding rounds, and the Googleyness round
A candidate with two years of experience went from recruiter outreach to offer over about four months. The onsite was four 45-minute coding rounds — three of them featuring binary trees — and one round turned into a 25-minute chain of follow-ups about approximating an optimal solution at scale.
Interviewed June 2020 · Bangalore, IN