Amazon India SDE-1 — OA to offer in a few weeks

## Background
This moved quickly — from OA to final result in a few weeks.

## Online assessment
DSA-heavy with a behavioural component. I kept my responses honest and straightforward rather than trying to game it.

## Round-by-round

### Round 1 — Resume & DSA
A resume walkthrough plus a coding problem. The problem was math-heavy; solving it efficiently needed **binary search** with the **Sieve of Eratosthenes**, plus further optimisation.

### Round 2 — Low-level design
Design the architecture for a streaming service. Getting to an efficient design came down to using **HashMaps** and **HashSets** in the right places.

### Round 3 — Bar Raiser
The toughest round — managerial, entirely around Amazon's **Leadership Principles**. It works as a checkpoint on whether you'd genuinely raise the bar versus the existing team, not just be an acceptable hire.

## Verdict
**Selected.**