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SDE 1 Interview Experience - Hyderābād, India

June 29, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A 3-round loop process with:

  • data structures and algorithms
  • basic OOP concepts
  • DBMS concepts
  • Amazon leadership principles interview
  • a HR interview
  • basic low-level design
  • online Assessment

Questions

You are part of a university admissions office and need to keep track of the kth highest test score from applicants in real-time. This helps to determine cut-off marks for interviews and admissions dynamically as new applicants submit their scores.

You are tasked to implement a class which, for a given integer k, maintains a stream of test scores and continuously returns the kth highest test score after a new score has been submitted. More specifically, we are looking for the kth highest score in the sorted list of all scores.

Implement the KthLargest class:

  • KthLargest(int k, int[] nums) Initializes the object with the integer k and the stream of test scores nums.
  • int add(int val) Adds a new test score val to the stream and returns the element representing the kth largest element in the pool of test scores so far.

Example 1: Input: ["KthLargest", "add", "add", "add", "add", "add"] [[3, [4, 5, 8, 2]], [3], [5], [10], [9], [4]]

Output: [null, 4, 5, 5, 8, 8]

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Amazon SDE 1 role in Hyderābād, Telangana.

Success Rate

9%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SDE 1 roles in Hyderābād, Telangana is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral36%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's SDE 1 interview process in Hyderābād, Telangana.

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