Amazon SWE 2 Interview Experience and Rejection Insights
Interview Experience
Will keep it short. There were 5 rounds in the process. 1st
OA 2 medium/hard DSA questions 2nd DSA Round: 1st question → Sliding window optimized approach (Brute force: recursion/DP). 2nd question →
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Will keep it short. There were 5 rounds in the process. 1st
OA 2 medium/hard DSA questions 2nd DSA Round: 1st question → Sliding window optimized approach (Brute force: recursion/DP). 2nd question → 2D DP.
Verdict +ve 3rd Round (LLD + DSA): Designed a Rate Limiter (gave the sliding window solution; for million users, missed Token Bucket) + Monotonic Stack question
Verdict -ve 4th Round (HLD): Designed a CheerCoin system (I didn't understand what went wrong, but I saw this question for the first time. Might have missed something.)
Verdict -ve 5th Round (Bar Raiser): 30 mins LP questions with deep grilling about past projects + LLD round to design max concurrent users logged in at the same time
Verdict +ve Good experience, although I felt I gave my best. Didn’t get the offer this time, but will keep grinding until then!! --- Preparation strategy: DSA: LeetCode
LLD Studied using ChatGPT
HLD HelloInterview Practice mocks: TryExponent --- All the best everyone!!
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a amazon interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2026.
It covers the following topics: Dynamic Programming, Recursion, Sliding Window, Stack, Two Pointers .
Difficulty rating: Hard