Amazon Senior SDE3 (Aurora Team) Interview Experience — Passed Coding, Failed on Database Internals

Amazon·Software Engineer·Jan 2026
OnsiteOnline AssessmentSenior+Rejectedhard

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Practice the questions from this interview

Serialize and deserialize a binary tree
Explain Aurora-style internals: WAL, MVCC, replication, recovery
Design a cloud database write path and recovery
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