Amazon

Applied through the career portal. Was invited to take the online assessment. It contained two hard questions, and I didn't really expect it to be so hard, even for an online assessment.

There were two DSA questions. One was based on a 2D matrix, and the other was based on strings and stacks. No questions on the project or core subject were asked. The interview was entirely based on DSA knowledge.

The Amazon SDE-1 interview has 4 stages: * An Online Assessment (coding + work simulation) * A phone screen (DSA + basics) * 3–4 onsite rounds (DSA, low-level design, leadership principles with a bar-raiser) * Finally, an HR/hiring discussio