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Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - United States

February 20, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Giving it back to Reddit as I relied heavily on the experiences. I had my virtual loop recently and the rounds were as follows:

Edit: Timeline

10/11 - OA

10/14 - Recruiter asked for availability

10/16 - Got the schedule

10/29 - Interviewed, 3hr loop

10/31 - Offer

Round 1: 1 hr LP

The interviewer was a very senior manager; he was friendly in the beginning but as the interview started, he kept on a poker face. I tried to answer everything in STAR format and also answered all of his follow-ups. He asked around 3 questions with 4-6 follow-ups on each. Tip: say something technical or throw some jargon and they will stop probing you; make sure you know what you are saying though. I have no idea how it went.

Round 2: 20min LP and 30 min LLD

Was asked a simple LLD problem and two LP questions. The interviewer was very supportive and did make it more like a conversation. The LLD was something like design a load balancer.

Round 3: 1hr for 2 LC.

First question was a very easy LC problem, BUT he asked 6 follow-ups and I had to give a solution to each and code everything up. Mind you, the question was very easy, but the last two follow-ups were tricky. The second one was an easy medium hashmap-based problem and he asked one follow-up on it. Luckily, was able to do all the follow-ups for both questions in time and he didn't have to give hints. This interviewer was the nicest of all, very friendly and didn't make it feel like an interview.

Overall, I'd say it was a good experience and learned a lot. The waiting game begins; it can be 50-50 given the first one was the bar raiser. Overall, it depends A LOT on luck, but I'd say for SDE 1, it is probably the easiest to get into Amazon right now.

Questions

Leetcode Tree: Maximum path sum.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 43 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Engineer New Grad role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Engineer New Grad roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive51%
Neutral40%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Engineer New Grad interview process in United States.