Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

The first round began with a quick self-introduction, then moved into two coding questions on data structures and algorithms. I wrote code in an online editor with no predefined test cases, and I had to talk through my thought process as I solved the problems. We also covered behavioral questions about teamwork and working under tight deadlines, plus deeper questions about the architecture and implementation choices in my Spring Boot project.

The second round felt harder. I was given a challenging binary tree problem where the discussion of the approach mattered before I even started