Interview Experiences

An Amazon Frontend Engineer II (SDE-2) loop in Bangalore: a recruiter call plus an online assessment, then four onsite rounds, vanilla JS machine coding on livecode.com, DSA plus JavaScript output on a shared doc, frontend system design on Miro, and a Bar Raiser mapped to the 16 Leadership Principles with a DSA follow-up. Compensation band reported at 35 to 45 LPA. The machine-coding round usually starts with a 5-star rating and is extended twice in the same session (half stars via clip-path, then keyboard and ARIA). DSA favourites are matrix staircase walks and graph cloning, paired with JS output traps on closures and the event loop. System design centers on a news homepage like Times of India with cursor pagination, a discriminated card schema, and breaking-news delivery within seconds. The Bar Raiser is behavioral against the Leadership Principles with one DSA follow-up (lowest common ancestor). Every question below is answered in full: what the interviewer is testing, how to talk through it, working code with complexity, edge cases and follow-ups, plus references. Validated from real public experiences and interview patterns. May vary by team and interviewer.