Amazon DSP Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA and rate limiter

Amazon DSPSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

The loop had no bar raiser, which made it look simpler on paper. Most rounds were DSA with a smaller set of low-level, product-style questions. The OA involved simulation-like grouping and sorting. In the live rounds, I found a median in an integer stream and identified the K most frequent elements in a stream. The low-level portion included implementing a sliding-window rate limiter. It felt str…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.