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Software Engineer II SDE2 Interview Experience - New York, New York

December 1, 2020
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Process

  1. Online OA (Rather difficult, did not get all test cases for 1 of 2 questions)
  2. Recruiter screening
  3. 30 min Technical phone screening (easy-medium LeetCode)
  4. Final round:
  • System design (design a system for coupons)
  • Algo round (Flood fill)
  • Algo round (Implement API for sorting using heaps, organize data based on friends list and return as an array of objects)
  • Algo round (Find the biggest N running sum, a dynamic programming question)

Downgraded to SDE 1 offer

Questions

Algo/Datastructure + System Design

Each interviewer asked LP questions for the last 10-15 minutes. You can easily prepare for this part if you can figure out what principle they are asking you about.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Engineer II SDE2 role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Engineer II SDE2 roles in New York, New York is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral25%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Engineer II SDE2 interview process in New York, New York.

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