I was contacted by a recruiter from AWS Dublin on LinkedIn for an SDE2 (L4) position in the DynamoDB team in January 2022.

I passed the HackerRank assessment and was invited for a phone interview.

I was told I didn't do well in the phone interview, but there was an opening for an SDE1 (L3) for the Aurora team if I was willing to consider.

Based on my HackerRank results, I didn't need to do a phone interview and proceeded directly to the final interview.

The final interview consisted of four interviews:

• The first consisted of a system design question (design TinyURL) and some Leadership Principles.
• The second was with a bar raiser and was entirely Leadership Principles questions.
• The third consisted of a question to design and implement a List Class with all its functionalities, discuss how to find if a linked list contains a loop, and some Leadership Principles.
• The last consisted of solving the Flood Fill problem and, of course, some Leadership Principles questions.

Result: I was told my technical knowledge was excellent, but the non-technical feedback wasn't good, so I did not receive an offer.

Technical:

• Design a Tiny URL service.
• Solve the Flood Fill problem.
• Design a List class.
• Find a loop in a linked list.

Leadership:

• Tell me about a time when you had a different opinion than your team leader.
• Tell me about a time when you faced a challenge.

There were other leadership questions, but I can't recall them right now.