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Amazon SDE-2 Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 9 Dec 2024

Top Amazon SDE-2 Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Ways To Make Coin Change You are given an infinite supply of coins of each of denominations D = {D0, D1, D2, D3, ...... Dn-1}. You need to figure out the total number of ...read more
  • Q2. Median in a stream Given that integers are read from a data stream. Your task is to find the median of the elements read so far. Median is the middle value in an ordered ...read more
  • Q3. Shopping Options You are given the list of costs of pants in an array “pants”, shirts in an array “shirts”, shoes in an array “shoes”, and skirts in an array “skirts”. Yo ...read more
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SDE-2 Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 16 Sep 2021

I was interviewed in Oct 2020.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 mins
Round difficulty - Medium

3 Questions were asked : 2- Trees and 1- Stack.
Interviewer was not receptive at all, I think this was a stress interview.

  • Q1. Validate Binary Search Tree Given a binary tree with N number of nodes, check if that input tree is BST (Binary Search Tree) or not. If yes, return true, return...read more
  • Q2. Binary Tree - Replace every node with Sum of nodes Greater than that node Given a binary tree with 'N' number of nodes, convert it to a Greater Tree suc...read more
  • Q3. Check if String has Valid parenthesis ()[]{} You're given string ‘STR’ consisting solely of “{“, “}”, “(“, “)”, “[“ and “]” . Determine whether the parenthe...read more
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 mins
Round difficulty - Hard

2 Coding Questions were asked, both were of Medium to Hard Difficulty.

  • Q1. Rearrange linked list with child and next pointers into a single linked list. You are given a multi-level linked list of 'N' nodes, each node has a next...read more
  • Q2. Rain Water Trapping Problem You have been given a long type array/list 'ARR' of size 'N'. It represents an elevation map wherein 'ARR[i]'...read more
3

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing : It was late night.
How the interviewer was? He was very tired and I had to lead the discussion.
1 System Design Question was asked, had to provide - HLD, LLD, APIs.

  • Q1. Design Swiggy/Zomato - Online Food ordering System
4

Telephonic Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing : Afternoon
How was the environment? Home
Interviewer : Hiring Manager

  • Q1. Hiring Manager Discussion Discussed about past Projects, challenges faced, disagreements with manager, why looking for job switch,  leadership principle qu...read more
5

Telephonic Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing - Afternoon
How was the environment? Home
How the interviewer was? Very Helpful Interviewer
Bar raiser Round - Coding + System Design + Leadership principle

  • Q1. Design ATM System

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as SDE - 2 in HyderabadEligibility criteria3+ years ExperienceAmazon interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - DS/Algo, System Design, HLD, LLD, Behavioral questionsTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : 250 Leetcode ( Easy- 70, Medium- 150, Hard- 30) 
Tip 2 : Don't underestimate importance of good projects on your Resume.
Tip 3 : Be Confident.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1: Resume should not be more than 1 page.
Tip 2: Have Keywords on Resume that match Job descriptions.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

SDE-2 Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 12 Apr 2022

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Apr 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

2 coding questions

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Ds algo round 2 medium questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well from leet code medium and few hard questions

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SDE-2 Interview Questions

user image Seema Sharma

posted on 9 Jul 2021

Interview Questions

SDE-2 Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 19 May 2022

I was interviewed before May 2021.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Balanced parentheses Given an integer ‘N’ representing the number of pairs of parentheses, Find all the possible combinations of balanced parentheses with the g...read more
2

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Boundary Traversal You have been given a binary tree of integers. Your task is to print the boundary nodes of this binary tree in Anti-Clockwise direction star...read more
3

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 45 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

  • Q1. Bottom View Of Binary Tree Given a binary tree, print its bottom view from left to right. Assume, the left and the right child make a 45-degree angle with the p...read more
4

Telephonic Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 45 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Bar raiser

  • Q1. System Design Questions

    Design Parking lot (LLD) and Tiny URL (HLD)

  • Q2. Basic HR Question

    Bar raiser, all Leadership principles.

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as SDE - 2 in BangaloreEligibility criteriaNoAmazon interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - DS Algos: Binary Trees, Topological Sort, Tries, Linked List, Arrays, StringsTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Prepare 1-2 examples for each Leadership Principles 
Tip 2 : Prepare questions from the latest interview experiences

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Concise, without errors
Tip 2 : Highlight years of experience

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Amazon interview questions for designations

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 SDE-1 Position

 (2)

 Sdet 2

 (1)

 SDE (Software Development Engineer)

 (26)

 HR Associate 2

 (3)

 Finance Specialist 2

 (1)

 Application Engineer 2

 (1)

SDE-2 Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 2 Apr 2015

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Find sum of all numbers that are formed from root to leaf path (code) expected time complexity O(n) View Answers (1)
  • Q2. Given a string you need to print all possible strings that can be made by placing spaces (zero or one) in between them. For example : ABC -> A BC, AB C, ABC, A ...read more View Answers (2)
  • Q3. Preorder traversal without using recursion View Answers (1)
  • Q4. There is a 12 km road and a contractor who is in-charge of repairing it. Contractor updates you about the work which is done in patches. Like “Road between 3.2 ...read more View Answers (2)
  • Q5. Several Questions were asked from my project Add Answer
  • Q6. Find median of an unsorted array. (code View Answers (1)
  • Q7. General discussion on heaps Add Answer
  • Q8. A stream of characters is coming, at any moment you have to tell ‘k’ elements closest to a given number (code) View Answers (1)
  • Q9. Design data structure that supports insert(), remove(), find-max(), delete-max() operations. All operations should run in O(1) time. Lots of discussion was ther...read more View Answers (2)
  • Q10. Check whether given link list represents palindrome View Answers (1)

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Recently I attended Amazon Bangalore interview for SDE 2 position. All f2f and no phone/written screening as I had attended one before and cleared those. Total 4 rounds wer der. The first techh round dey asked mi questions listed above.
Tips: NA

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: ROUND 2 dey asked mi above questions
Tips: NA

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Round 3 Above questions wer asked.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This was the last round. thy asked mi above questions

College Name: NA

Skills evaluated in this interview

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user image Programming with Nisha

posted on 16 Nov 2021

Amazon Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Amazon SDE-2 interview?
Amazon interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Amazon interview process are Coding Test, Technical and One-on-one Round.
What are the top questions asked in Amazon SDE-2 interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Amazon SDE-2 interview -

  1. There is a 12 km road and a contractor who is in-charge of repairing it. Contra...read more
  2. Given a string you need to print all possible strings that can be made by placi...read more
  3. Design data structure that supports insert(), remove(), find-max(), delete-max(...read more

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