Entry-level SDE role building ML accelerator tooling on Amazon's Annapurna Labs team

SDE I opening on the same Annapurna Labs / AWS Neuron team building profiling and resource-management tooling for ML workloads on Inferentia and Trainium accelerators, but this requisition's qualifications read as an early-career bar: general-purpose programming languages, data structures/basic algorithm development, and object-oriented design, with internships and project experience called out as the preferred path rather than assumed prior industry work.

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Likely format

Amazon new-grad SDE loop: typically an online assessment, then phone/virtual interviews covering coding fundamentals and Leadership Principles.

What this interview tests

Data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design fundamentals
General-purpose programming language proficiency (Java plus Go/Python/TypeScript)
Internship or project experience with cloud platforms and databases (SQL/NoSQL)
Git and CI/CD basics
Exposure to distributed systems or big-data concepts (nice-to-have, not required)

Common question themes

Data structures and algorithms coding problem

Explain an object-oriented design decision from a past project

Describe an internship or class project involving cloud services or databases

Basic version control / CI workflow questions

Amazon Leadership Principles behavioral questions calibrated to entry-level scope

How candidates describe it

Real Software Development Engineer I interview stories — retold from candidates' public write-ups, with sources.

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad, MS CS)Offer

Amazon 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

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Amazon SDE I Interview Experience: Global Selling Team, 2022

A LinkedIn referral bypassed Amazon's usual online assessment for this SDE I candidate, who then worked through a telephonic DSA screen and two technical rounds pairing coding problems with Amazon Leadership Principles questions before receiving no further response.

Interviewed March 2022 · Not specified

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