Status: < 1 YoE
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Location: New York, New York
Date: August 2021

Online Assessment (2 hours)：

• 2Sum variant
• 2D Array BFS question
• Simulated work assessment (multi choice questions about workplace behavior)

Both were very easy and I finished with plenty of time left. You can find all of the Amazon OA questions elsewhere.

Onsite (4 hours)

• Round 1 (SDM) (1 hour):

  • Leadership Principles (25 mins)
  • https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/369272/Amazon-or-Onsite-or-Linux-Find-Command (30 mins)
  • Questions for interviewer (5 mins)

• Round 2 (SDE2) (1 hour):

  • Leadership Principles (25 mins)
  • Given a list of logs containing checkin/checkout times for a given Amazon locker and a given customer, return the ids of the top k lockers by total hours used. You're given an API to use to iterate through these logs and calculate the total number of hours a locker was rented. There are some implementation details to consider given the way the data is formatted. I used a max heap. (30 mins)
  • Questions for interviewer (5 mins)

• Round 3 (SDE2) (1 hour):

  • Leadership Principles (20 mins)
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/evaluate-reverse-polish-notation/ with followups (35 mins)
  • Questions for interviewer (5 mins)

• Break (1 hour)

• Round 4 (Product Manager, Bar Raiser) (1 hour):

  • Leadership Principles (50 mins)
  • Questions for interviewer (10 mins)