Rahul Sharma
SDE-2 at Amazon
📋 Overview
4 rounds over 2 days. Heavy focus on Leadership Principles in every round alongside DSA. Preparation took 3 months. Key tip: prepare STAR format stories for all 14 LPs.
Rounds
4
Level
3-5 yrs
Difficulty
Hard
Result
Selected
👨💼 Interview Rounds
Online assessment — 2 DSA problems in 90 minutes
Questions Asked:
- →Merge K sorted lists
- →LRU Cache implementation
DSA + LP questions. Interviewer was very friendly.
Questions Asked:
- →Design a rate limiter
- →Binary tree zigzag traversal
- →Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager
Design Amazon's order management system at scale
Questions Asked:
- →Design order management system
- →How would you handle 1M orders/day?
Bar raiser round — mostly behavioral with some technical
Questions Asked:
- →Describe a project you're most proud of
- →How do you handle ambiguity?
💡 Tips from Rahul Sharma
Prepare all 14 Leadership Principles with STAR format stories
Practice medium-hard LeetCode problems daily for 2 months
For system design, focus on scalability and trade-offs
Be very specific with numbers and metrics in behavioral answers
🏷️ Topics Covered
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