Hey Guys,

I want to share my expereince with interviewing with Amazon recently for SDE-I position. I gave my hackerrank coding challenge in Feb . Passed all cases for 1st Question and 10/17 for the second. The questions were similar to what you can find in amazon question bank. Received request for phone interview with in a week. I was working for my Bloomberg Onsite at the same time so was a great thing as i didn't have to study anything extra. Scheduled Phone Interview on 17th March 2021. I had my Bloomberg onsite on 12th March. Boombed it . Got a reject on the morning of 17th , great start to the day. Got Number of island question in the coding part, along with some follow ups and customer obsession in leadership principles. Got a final Onsite call a week after my phone interview. Scheduled it for 9th April . Here is the excert :

Round 1 : Leadership - Have backbone
Coding : linkedHashMap question similar to LRU
I was initially completely phased by the question and blabbered how we can use queues and all to solve the question but then the interviewer gave hints on how to actually solve the problem. Got done with a working solution at the last minute of the interview. Didn't discuss complexity as we were out of time.

Round 2 : Leadership : Learn and be curious , and Ownership
Coding : design a fast food restaurant with kiosk and how will you order and follow ups
This was probably the bar raiser. Took almost 35 -40 mins for leadership principles went in every detail of the story and ask clarifying questions. In design i went with object oriented design by going ahead and designing classes but while doing it he gave a few pointers what he wanted to see and i tried to make changes but was so restless as time was running out. According to my liking this design part sucked.

Round 3 : Leadership: Deliver Results and Bias for action
Coding : straight forward design HashMap question with complexity and followups.
This was a fun interview for me. It went great i gave great examples in leadership and breezed through the coding question as i had done this before. He gave some good follow ups and was able to answer them. Probably my best interview so far.

Round 4 : Leadership: Invent and Simplify , Customer Obsession. Insist on the Highest Standards and Dive Deep
This was the final round with the engineering manager . Dough very deep in all the stories. There was also a shadow present in the interview.

Its important you keep speaking throughout the interview even if you feel you are stuck. I was stuck on a couple of stages but just kept on balbering something which probably made no sense. The interviewer will understand and give cues.

Overall , I guess the interviewers were more understanding than Bloomberg and it was a good experience. I will be graduating in May 2021. I have a couple of years of previous experience in a MNC.

Update: Got the offer in 3 working Days.