Amazon Offer SDE1 New Grad US

Applied: Second week of December
Fungible OA: Medium-Hard on the first week of February
Loop Invite: Next day
Interviewed: 3rd week of February

Round 1: Bar Raiser (4-5 LP with follow-ups)
Round 2: Pure Maintainability Round - LLD
Round 3: LC Medium Problem and LLD/Maintainability (adding additional requirements without changing existing code) + 2 LP with follow-ups

Performance Breakdown:
- According to me, my performance in the second round was not up to the mark. I didn’t explain trade-offs well, but the interviewer asked me to code my approach anyway. I finished coding on time.
- The first round went well.
- The third round went okay; the interviewer was chill but had a lot of additional requirements or modifications.

Suggestions:
- Explain edge cases and clarify constraints.
- Practice 4-5 LLD (I used Reddit AI to query questions).
- Prepare at least 2 scenarios for each commonly asked LP question.

My Background:
- ~500 Leetcode problems
- International student with 2 YOE

Thanks to the community for helping me out with my interview prep—this is me giving back.