Hi Everyone,

I want to share my interview experience with Amazon. It will be short & to the point.
Location: Hyd, India.

OA:
Qualified by participating in CodeChef Contest sponsored by Amazon.
Participated in both April Long (Solved 5 problems) & Cook off challenge. (Solved only 2 problems)

Got a call that my profile has been Shortlisted.

Loop Interviews:

Round 1: Design
20 mins LP questions related to current job.
Next 40 minutes for
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/609070/Amazon-OOD-Design-Unix-File-Search-API

I think this round didn't go well. I should have practiced more design questions.

Round 2: Design
25 Mins LP questions.
Design questions related to my current project.
A lot of questions related to current project that I am working on & follow ups.

You need to answer about each design consideration with some quantifiable data/measurement.

Round 3: Algorithms
First 20 mins for LP.

Problem 1:
https://leetcode.com/problems/sliding-window-maximum/

I took some time but was able to solve with deque implemenation with all cases & sample dry run.

Problem 2:
https://leetcode.com/problems/largest-rectangle-in-histogram/
Gave brute force approach.
Could not come up with more optimal solution using stack.

I ran out of time.

Verdict : Got rejection email. I think this is mostly becase of Round 1 & Round 3.