Amazon | SDE-1 | Seattle | Feb 2021 [Offer]

Status: New grad, MS, Computer Software Engineering
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: February 09, 2021

I reached out to a recruiter in the month of November 2020. I got a reply from the recruiter on November 24th where I was asked to provide more information (Expected graduation date, visa status, work experience etc.) via email.

OA:

  1. Pair Songs
  2. Shopping Pattern

The above two questions were followed by explanations, where I was asked to explain the approach to solve them along with their respective time and space complexity analysis.

Phone Interview (1 round, 1 hour):

Behavioural Questions
Tell me about one of your project that you're proud of.
If given a chance to work on it now, what modification you'd do and why?

Algorithm Question
Given a text input, return the text in the decreasing order of frequency of each word occurrences in the text which is not in the banned list.

Similar to : Most Common Word

Final Interview (4 rounds, 4 hours)

Algorithm Questions:

  1. Implement Trie and find the words which makes the highest points in scrabble game.
  2. Group Anagrams
  3. Parking Lot Design
  4. Explain and design a high scalable, fault-tolerant and available system for a web app.

Result : Got the Offer

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