Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Streams and rate limiting

My process focused on data structures and low-level reasoning, with leadership and workplace questions alongside them. There was no bar raiser, so it felt less like a large gauntlet and more like direct technical checks plus LP questions.

The OA included simulation-style grouping and sorting. In live interviews, I worked on finding the median of an integer stream and the K most frequent elements from an integer stream, and answered multiple LP questions. Later I implemented a sliding-window rate limiter. I did not receive an offer, but the rounds felt manageable and coherent, with enough variety to test frequency and stream problems alongside a concrete systems-style task.

Location: Hyderābād. Overall feedback: positive. Offer status: no offer.