Amazon onsite interview experience
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Role: SDE2, Location: Seattle, Date: 24-FEB-2021
Years of experience: 10+
Online screen:
Hackerrank online screening
Questions: Robot bounded in circle and one other question related to price of jeans, price of skirt etc. I will update the question if I remember.

Virtual onsite 4 interviews with 1 hour each:
Interview 1: Questions about project for about 20 minutes. Coding: Product of array except self. We should not use division to solve the problem.
Interview 2: System design: Design a system like TinyURL
Interview 3: Questions about project for about 20 minutes. We are given a list of cars, and the direction of the road they are in. We need to find the order in which cars leave the intersection. The list of cars have the cars at the intersection in order. However, if two cars are in opposite direction, for example East/West or North/South, they can leave the intersection even though other cars arrived before it.
Interview 4: Questions about project for about 20 minutes. Given a list of inputs in the form of a string array, for example [["Item: Bread", "Id:1"], ["Item: Meat", "Id:3"], ["Item: Sauce", Id:2], ["Item: Bread", "Id:4"]], we need to arrange the input string in order and output the result. The interviewer said do not worry about parsing the string. I gave the solution of sorting based on Id and then getting the result. It was very unclear what the interviewer was expecting. Also, I made the mistake of having only screen, and the interviewer said he was nodding to my questions, and I was writing code in another window. This was a very uncomfortable interview.

I got a reject call the next day. I believe I did system design and the first interview really well. I wasn't able to tell how I did inteview 3 and 4. Amazon does not give any feedback, so all I could do was be sad for a few hours. Started applying again with the hope that someday I will get accepted. Good luck to everyone applying.

Note: I might provide more details about the questions if I remember.

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