Amazon | SDE 1 | Seattle | [Offer Accepted]
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I landed a job at Amazon for an SDE 1 role
I had one phone screen and 4 onsite interviews
Every round consisted of behavioral questions on 14 LP of Amazon and one coding/System design questions

Phone Screen
3 Sum Closest


Virtual Onsite Round 1 (Bar Raiser)

A question on similar books that needed to be solved using union find. ( I solved it using two hashMaps one of which was inverted index based HashMap)


Virtual Onsite Round 2

A system design question on the monitoring and resolutions system for physical devices in a data center. (Similar to heartbeat in HDFS, and extending it to different geo-regions)


Virtual Onsite Round 3

A design question on creating a log analysis service similar to how market basket analysis in apriori algorithm is done (Data mining)


Virtual Onsite Round 4

Valid Parentheses generation
( The easiest question of the lot , on which i did not do as well as expected. I coded the naive solution and then explained the other two approaches (backtracking with counter variables, bottom up creation method using lists)).


I was grilled a lot on the Research that I did with my clould computing professor.
Also, I was asked a miimum of 3-4 question based on LP.

The recruiter was really prompt and gave me a verbal confirmation the very next business day.

After a week I received an offer. Following some negotiations I accepted the position.

A little about me

Work Exp : 2 years
Bachelors : Indian University
Masters in CS

LeetCode problems : about 500 / 300 Easy / 200 Medium

Hope this helps

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