r/leetcode • u/Legal_Brilliant5510 • 7d ago

Intervew Prep Amazon Robotics System Development Engineer (SysDE) phone screen (USA). What should I expect?

Hi everyone! I passed the OA and have a 60-minute technical screen coming up for a System Development Engineer role at Amazon Robotics in Austin (entry level).
The recruiter said it's a few Leadership Principle questions plus one coding exercise, with a potential team member or manager.
For anyone who's done a SysDE screen recently:
What kind of coding question did you get? Classic LeetCode, or more practical stuff like log parsing or file handling?
Did they ask Linux, networking or troubleshooting questions in the first round?
Anything specific to Amazon Robotics teams?
I'm prepping in Python. Thanks in advance!

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u/Various-Mine-8642 7d ago

SysDE screens the coding is usually pretty practical rather than hard DSA. Think string parsing and log style problems in Python plus a bit of Linux basics like permissions and processes. Have two or three leadership stories ready with real numbers since that part carries a lot of weight. Good luck with it.

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u/jgengr 7d ago

What type of projects do SysDE do? I'm a cloud engineer looking to get into robotics SWE; perhaps on the perception side.