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Three Rounds, Rejected in Five Business Days

AmazonSDE 1 · Onsite · Aug 2026

Amazon SDE 1 three-round interview experience: ultimately rejected. Round 1: Coding He first had me do a self-introduction, briefly going over my career plans, and then we moved into the coding part. Q: Design a file search API backend that supports recursive subdirectory search. There are a few edge cases to watch out for here. If the input directory is null or not a directory, the output should…

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