Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a LeetCode-medium style round where I worked through a priority queue problem, and I also had some general discussion about LLMs plus a quick walk-through of my projects. The second round was another concrete coding challenge—an LRU cache—and the expectation was that I’d go from a brute-force approach toward an optimized solution as we iterated.

In another run with a similar difficulty profile, the technical part leaned more toward core CS fundamentals paired with two easy-to-medium DSA questions. I felt decent on the fundamentals, but one of the DSA questions threw me off