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Amazon SDE II Interview Questions

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Typical interview loop

  1. 1. Phone screen
  2. 2. Technical Interview 1
  3. 3. Technical Interview 2
  4. 4. Behavioral Interview
  5. 5. Manager Interview
  6. 6. Bar Raiser Interview

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Recent Amazon SDE II questions

  • Design a rate limiter

    system design
    hard

  • Describe a conflict you had with a teammate and how you resolved it.

    behavioral
    medium

  • Tell me about a time you showed ownership.

    behavioral
    medium

  • Design a real-time messaging system.

    system design
    hard

  • Explain how you would approach debugging a performance issue in a production system.

    system design
    medium

  • Implement an algorithm to find the shortest path in a graph.

    algorithms
    hard

  • Describe a time you failed and what you learned from it.

    behavioral
    medium

  • Design a system for URL shortening.

    system design
    hard

  • How do you handle disagreement with your manager?

    behavioral
    medium

  • Write code to reverse a linked list.

    data structures
    easy

  • Discuss your experience with designing APIs.

    system design
    medium

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