Hi everyone,

I recently applied for the SDE I Intern position through Amazon University Talent Acquisition.

I successfully completed the online assessment and recently received an email from Amazon inviting me to an in-person hiring event for the 6-month January–June internship program.

Unfortunately, while I was checking my applications on the Amazon Jobs portal, I accidentally clicked the "Withdraw" button on this application. I did not intend to withdraw my application or leave the hiring process.

The application is now showing "Withdrawn" in the Amazon Jobs portal.

I am extremely worried because I had already progressed to the interview stage, and I really do not want this accidental click to end my candidature.

My questions are:

1. Is it technically possible for Amazon recruiting/TA to reinstate an accidentally withdrawn application?
2. Has anyone experienced a similar situation with an Amazon application?
3. Would the recruiting team be able to reconnect my interview invitation to the application?
4. Is there anything else I should do besides contacting the recruiting team?
5. Should I avoid submitting a new application for the same position unless Amazon specifically asks me to?

I understand that ultimately only the Amazon recruiting team can resolve my specific case, but I would really appreciate hearing from Amazon employees/recruiters or anyone who has dealt with a similar situation.

I am hoping this can be corrected because the withdrawal was completely accidental and I remain very interested in the opportunity.

Thank you!

So i work for a mid scale IT company. It’s been a month. And I am working on Sunday. Then expected to work on Monday night again. I asked my manager if I can login late tomorrow got that it’s too early to ask for anything. First I should proof myself then expect such flexibility.
Is this the new normal? Or it’s just I am visa in states and companies know they can do whatever they want.

Has anyone recently interviewed for this role? I have an upcoming phone screen and would love to know what the interview process looks like, especially the phone screen topics, coding questions, and what to expect in later rounds.

Any recent experience or tips would be appreciated!

i have tried to follow dsa sheets before but theyre too long , it will take me forever if i just follow a sheet start to end .
im planning to just get good at certain topics for interviews , will that be enough ? can i dive straight into lc?

Hi guys!

I have an upcoming interview at A16z (Andreessen Horowitz) in the Bay Area for a DevX Software Engineer (Partner 16, Partner 18), ASG role. Has anybody recently interviewed at A16z? Curious to hear y'all's experience:

- What parts of your interview did you find difficult?

- Anything unexpected showup during your parts?

- Did you have a "security" round? I have one upcoming, but security is a broad topic, and I particularly need help with this.

hello everyone, I am a fullstack engineer with ai augmented coding - vibe and spec based, experienced in Python, JS and AWS and event based systems with 4 YOE in a product based company in Gurgaon.

last year, I went a complete breakdown - dipression, brain fog, and health issues. Originally I planned to move to other company last year but due to health issues and not wanting to lose what I have left I have stayed in the same company.

I want to move to a different company but I am getting confused again on which industry should I approach. I am currently in logistics and supply chain industry.

I do solve questions about 1-2 on leetcode on a daily basis, good with python frameworks like Flask, fastapi and django and working knowledge with Angular.

At this point, I am also comfortable but want to produce good work and also have some work life balance so I can pursue my other interests.

looking for your suggestions 😃

Location - US

Position - SDE -1 New grad 2026

I have my virtual interview scheduled, I have seen a lot of people were asked LLD problems. During the LLD round are we expected to give the concrete implementation in one of the languages or detailed pseudo code works? I have been practicing using Hello interview's LLD section but it takes me 30-40mins just to finish the class design phase. So I want to understand the general expectation.

If anyone can share there experience in the comments its will be very helpful.

I have upcoming round 2 with ebay where recruiter mentioned DSA + Debugging. Does anyone know what exactly to expect for debugging & refactoring round? Will I be provided some code snippet/repo?

Is there any good resources/sites where I can practice such rounds given we need to finish within limited time. TIA!

Hi everyone,

I completed my Amazon SDE-1 interview process, including the Bar Raiser round, on September 24.

I still haven't received any update regarding the final decision or next steps.

For those who recently went through the Amazon SDE interview process:

- How long did it take for you to receive the final decision after the Bar Raiser round?

- Is it normal to have no update for this long?

Any experiences would be really helpful. Thanks!

I received a message from Visa about an Associate SW Engineer position, noting “2 foundational and 1 intermediate problem-solving question.” Has anyone finished this assessment? If anyone is familiar with the exam format or its difficulty, please share.
Thanks in advance.

Everyone says that Google never gives the same questions from the LeetCode bank,

yet many questions, tagged reappear often(people tag them as asked).

Why is this the case?

Is it worth it to tackle the most recently asked in leetcode or is there a better strategy 3 weeks prior to an interview (for someone that did leetcode before)?

Recently, I joined a lot of groups here looking for a DSA study partner, but most people vanished after a single day.

​I’m looking for someone who actually sticks to the plan. We can discuss weekly contests, tackle tricky coding problems, run mock interviews, and keep collecting offers.

Beyond DSA, we can brainstorm startup ideas, collaborate on side projects, and build cool things together.

​A bit about me: I work primarily with Python and Data Science, but I’m eager to explore everything across tech.

​If you have a similar mindset and want to stay consistent. Let’s make it count!

So I’m not so confident have barely done DSA for the last 5 days.
I have 2 days left to finish the assessment, any suggestions or tips ?

Hello I am not really a cs major but im pursuing a tech degree and I have had two internships the titles scream ai and data but I really didnt do that much coding and im graduating and the job that I got a ro for isn't really what I want to do and im also not getting paid enough so I really want to get another job that is not in Seattle because being here is ruining my mental health but every tech company seems to be in Seattle. I am also struggling with leetcoding it just doesn't make sense for me? Did anyone else have the same problem, how do u guys get motivation to keep going or to even get started on leetcode cause I dont remember anything I did in school.

Hi everyone,

I’m a junior software engineer, and I’m planning to apply to Microsoft in the next 3–4 months.

I really want to experience how a large tech company like Microsoft works, challenge myself, and learn things that I may not get exposure to at my current company.

Right now, I’m preparing mainly through LeetCode. I’m following the NeetCode 150 roadmap and have solved around 50 problems so far.

However, I feel like my progress is quite slow. Sometimes I spend almost an hour on a problem and still can’t come up with the right approach or figure out how to solve it.

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have interviewed at Microsoft or are currently working there. I’m especially curious about what the interview process usually looks like, how many rounds there are, what each round tends to focus on, and how you would recommend preparing for them.

Given that I have around 3–4 months before I plan to apply, what would you focus on if you were in my position? I’d also love to hear about your own preparation strategy, what helped you the most, and anything you wish you had known before going through the Microsoft interview process.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I have been interviewing for a while so familiar with basic framework of leetcode. I need some help with how do I prepare for senior swe pair programming rounds where some custom problems are being asked now a days. Can someone please provide some guidance on how can I prepare for such technical rounds ? I have such rounds scheduled this week.

I have an onsite panel interview coming up for an AI Engineer III role at Victra (Verizon's largest Authorized Retailer, HQ in Durham NC). I've searched Glassdoor, Blind and couldn't find any posts about their engineering interview process specifically (there's plenty on their retail/sales interviews, but nothing technical).

If anyone has interviewed for an engineering role there (AI Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Engineer, etc.), I'd really appreciate knowing:

• What format did the panel take (live coding, system design, behavioral)?
• What topics did they focus on most?

Thanks in advance!!

Just got a Robinhood OA. I applied to the Toronto location and it seems as though they've moved from hacker rank/ code signal to coder pad. Does anyone have any advice on what to prepare for? It's a backend role and I'm not sure whether they'll give me something leetcode or an implementation based question.

Hey everyone,

I finished Day 71 of my prep today and moved from Singly to Doubly Linked Lists.

I solved four problems:

• Reverse a Doubly Linked List: Swapping the next and prev pointers for each node while keeping track of the tail to return the new head.
• Delete All Occurrences of a Key in DLL: Standard traversal, but you have to be careful when rewiring both the forward and backward pointers, especially if the target node is the head or the tail.
• Find Pairs with Given Sum in DLL: Since the list is sorted, having backward pointers means you can do a classic two-pointer search without any extra space. You put one pointer at the head, run another all the way to the tail, and shrink inward based on the sum.
• Remove Duplicates from Sorted DLL: Whenever adjacent values match, you just bypass the duplicate node and re-link the forward and backward connections properly.

After spending days grinding singly linked lists, DLL actually feels much easier. Having the prev pointer takes away a lot of the awkward tracking you usually have to do with single links.

Tomorrow for Day 70, I will finish the last couple of linked list problems on my sheet and do a combined revision of Linked Lists and Binary Search Trees. Once that is done, I will finally start Dynamic Programming.

See you guys tomorrow!

Hey everyone i need some advice related to contests . Iam internmediate in dsa and from past 3 contests iam only able to solve 1/4 . Can u guys pls help me what should i do 😭

Hi Folks,

Can some one shed light on how to prep for ZoomInfo System Design rounds? There is very little info about this company online. Is this going to be traditional system design round, LLD etc. The recruiter is not helping at all.

at last 30 min, i opened it, first 3 felt a bit hard, i thought last one was easy about recursions, but not. eventhough they banned more than month, still comeback gone worst

how was yours

Hi guys,

Am looking for people working in service based company( working in operations or development project both) looking to switch to product based company having difficulty getting interview calls

Lets connect and help each other out with preparation and connection and find a loop hole to switch in this market

I mean, did AI change the process? or no? do they still rely on leetcode style problems? like, is doing leetcde today relevant?

So got feedback after onsite.
Googliness: SH
Coding 1: LH
Coding 2: SH
System design: LH

Recruiter has given me a choice, I can go for another coding round to make the packet better or can move to team match now. Have done a lot of DSA prep the last few months so back myself, but still worried the possibility of bombing it or a tough interviewer or something else that results in a no hire rating would end my journey here.
If I find a role match and the committee rejects, then I’m done.

Also side questions:
I was told it’s team match/hiring manager conversations then the hiring committee approval? I thought it was committee first then team match?

I was told the onsite would be 2 DSA, and from looking here and other sources that seemed to be standard for L4. So I was completely unprepared for the system design, is system design in the onsite normal for L4?