Amazon New Grad Software Engineer Interview Experience — OA, Then Four One-Hour VO Rounds in Python, Heavy on LP

SDE I OA

LeetCode coding: one problem. (In the original I wrote the problem number in a scrambled form, so I can't say which problem it was.)

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SDE I interview experience

Four rounds of VO, about 1 hour each, using Python.

Round 1: LP + Coding

LP:

• Taking the initiative to solve problems outside your own scope of responsibility (Ownership).
• How you deliver under a tight deadline, or what you do when you end up past the deadline.

There were some follow-ups on both, mainly about real experience.

Coding: a LeetCode problem, again written only as a scrambled problem number in my original notes.

Round 2: LP (GenAI) + Coding

LP:

• Mainly about my actual past experience using GenAI.
• How do you judge whether the result produced by AI is correct?
• If the AI gives a wrong result, how do you notice it?
• After you find a problem in the AI output, how do you handle it?

The follow-ups dug into the real usage scenario, how I verified things, and how I handled the problem.

Coding:

Given a set of user login records, for example [{user_id, "2026-05-03"}, ...], find the longest streak of consecutive login days. If there is a gap of more than one day between login dates, the streak counts from zero again.

Round 3: LP + Coding

LP: My memory of the LP questions in this round is pretty hazy, I don't remember exactly what was asked.

Coding: another problem written only as a scrambled problem number in my notes.

Round 4: pure LP

The whole round was LP, and they asked a lot of questions. I did not write all of them down, but most were about day-to-day development, working together on projects, and situations you might run into with coworkers. You answer mainly from your past work experience, and there are follow-ups. If you have prepared your LP stories beforehand, you can basically answer most of the questions.

Update (2026-11-10): to add some detail based on a question I got. Of the coding problems, two were LeetCode style and the other one I think was OOD. The live coding cannot be run, so you have to dry run it on the spot.