Status: 9 months experience (exclude internship)
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Location: Bangalore
Date: April 2020
Recruiter reached to me via linkedIn and soon after the confirmation, they shared the online assessment within a week. Assessment was very easy. I dont remember exactly but there were 3 pretty easy problem which i solved in around 30 mins.
After clearning the online assessment, I go through following rounds :
Round 0 : Telephonic Round
Recruiter reached out to me on call mentioning I have cleared the round and they will be scheduling a Telephonic round with me. This round was re- scheduled 3 times due to inavailability of recruiter, which was very frustating. Finally it happened. It was a DS ALgo Round. I was asked one question on Arrays. Difficulty ranges to easy-medium. Does not exactly remember the question now.
After around 3 weeks got a mail of clearing the Telephonic Round. They shared the schedule for virtual interview round with the panel (happened after 2 weeks).
The schedule was like :
Round 1
This round was taken by SE (2 years of Exp) which was most of DS Algo and Some Behaivioural Question. I was asked two problems : (Similar to these, Not Exactly same)
- https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-size-subarray-sum/
- Implementing some DS with given functions, space and time bound.
Solved both the questions. Interview went smooth.
Round 2
This round was pretty much similar to that of first. Just that Interviewer was more experienced ( SDE2 or equivalent). Both technical and Behavioural competency was tested.
Problems were similar to:
Again solved both the problems.
Round 3
Due to inavailabilty of interviewer, this round was rescheduled to later date (around 14 days). This round tested my design ability . I was given a sample problem and asked to design the class diagram on this. Most of the time was spend over discussing and implementing the solution. Later I was asked a query using SQL which could be easilty done if you have basic understanding of JOIN clause. I was not able to write the query that moment, but explained him the join condition. Later he asked me about my work at company and some behavioural questions on top of it.
Round 4 Managerial Round
Did not happened yet, Waiting for the dates.
Observations
- They are very peculiar about the leadership principles, Each round, I was asked some questions from them.
- Try to think loud before the interviewer. It helps.
PS : The process is taking so long. I am not sure if this happens with all the candidates. I will keep updating the post about upcoming rounds or result.
Checkout my Hotstar Interview Experience here: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1230212/Disney%2BHotstar-or-SDE1-or-Bangalore-or-April-2021-Accepted