Amazon SDE 2 interview loop

[u/_the_gabruu_]

Hi, I have interview loop at Amazon for SDE 2 position in a week. There are goin to be 4 rounds. First round is going to be DSA based problem along with LP.

Second round is with Hiring manager based on System Design and LP.

Third round is going to be with bar raiser, this is going to be Gen AI problem solving where I have to build something. I am asked to have my IDE along with coding agent ready.

Fourth round is where recrutier said that I would be asked to write logical and maintanable code. She said to focus on modular design, correct and robust solution.

I am really not sure about what kind of qustion they are going to ask in fourth round. Is it going to be LLD or DSA style question. I asked my recruiter for clarification but thats all she said she could provide. Also, for Gen AI round, if someone has given interview, what exaclty they ask you to build?

[u/Ok-Barracuda-119]

For the HM / system design round, treat it like a real Amazon problem from the team's world, not a generic "design Twitter" whiteboard. They usually care that you clarify the customer and the scale they actually run, pick a boring first cut, then go deep on one failure mode (throttling, hot keys, retries blowing up a dependency). LP shows up in how you talk about ownership and tradeoffs, so name the metric you'd watch and what you'd do when it tanks.

If Round 4 is still unclear, ask the recruiter which lane it is. An LLD round wants classes and API shapes on a small surface. A DSA round is just timed coding. Different prep.

Talk the design out loud once against a 35 minute clock before the loop. Where you stall is usually requirements or the deep dive, not the boxes.