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The document outlines key preparation areas for Amazon interviews, emphasizing mastery of Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), coding round expectations, system design principles, and Amazon's Leadership Principles. It suggests practicing on platforms like LeetCode and highlights the importance of clean coding and understanding core computer science fundamentals. Additionally, it advises candidates to be ready to discuss impactful projects from their resumes.

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Know Led Dge

The document outlines key preparation areas for Amazon interviews, emphasizing mastery of Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), coding round expectations, system design principles, and Amazon's Leadership Principles. It suggests practicing on platforms like LeetCode and highlights the importance of clean coding and understanding core computer science fundamentals. Additionally, it advises candidates to be ready to discuss impactful projects from their resumes.

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Core DSA (Data Structures & Algorithms)


Amazon focuses heavily on DSA.

Topics to Master:
Arrays & Strings (sliding window, two pointers, prefix sums)

Hashing (HashMap, HashSet)

Stacks & Queues (Monotonic stack, min/max queue)

Linked Lists (reverse, detect cycle, merge)

Trees & Binary Trees (DFS, BFS, LCA, traversal types)

Binary Search Trees

Heaps & Priority Queues

Graphs (BFS, DFS, Union-Find, Dijkstra)

Dynamic Programming (Knapsack, Subsets, LIS, DP on trees)

Recursion & Backtracking

📚 Practice on: LeetCode, especially the "Amazon" tag problems.

💻 2. Coding Round
You’ll get 1–2 medium/hard LeetCode-style problems.

Tips:
Write clean, modular code

Optimize your solution

Use proper variable names and edge case checks

📦 3. System Design (for SDE-2 and above or LLD basics for SDE-1)
Low-Level Design (LLD): classes, relationships, SOLID principles

High-Level Design (HLD): scalability, database, API, load balancing

🛠 Common systems:

Design a URL shortener

Design a parking lot

Design Amazon's cart system

🔍 4. Amazon Leadership Principles (Bar Raiser Round)


Amazon has 14 Leadership Principles. Expect deep behavioral questions in STAR
format:

Example Questions:
“Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager.”

“Describe a situation where you had to take the lead.”

“Tell me about a time you failed.”


Use the STAR method:
Situation – Task – Action – Result

📌 Know all 14 principles [you can ask for a summary if needed].

⚙️ 5. CS Fundamentals
Especially for campus or SDE-1 roles.

OOP Concepts

Operating Systems (process/thread, deadlock, memory mgmt)

DBMS (SQL, normalization, transactions)

Networking (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP basics)

📘 6. Resume & Projects


Highlight projects with impact, scale, or interesting tech

Be ready to deep dive into any line on your resume

📚 Resources:
LeetCode: Amazon tag

GeeksforGeeks: Must Do DSA questions

System Design Primer (GitHub)

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