Position: SE 1 at Cerner Corp
Location: Kansas City, MO
Date: August 11, 2021
Initially a recruiter reached out to me regarding the role on Linkedin. Sent a link for online assessment to be done in a week.
Online Assessment:
Typical online assessment with 2 coding questions and a whole bunch of situational questions.
Was able to pass all test cases.
Since all test cases were passed, the recruiter mentioned there won't be any phone screen
Onsite 4 Rounds
Three rounds consisted of one or two technical questions and some behavioural.
One other round was with the manager and was purely based on LP Question.
Among coding all of them were graph/tree based questions. One was an Object Oriented Design.
Edit1: Every question was from leetcode and popular ones at that. Heard that Amazon and Facebook are not keen on DP questions. So did't focus on those at all.
The interviews went well and got an offer in 5 business days.
Edit2:
Prepation Strategy:
Just went through the top 100 and most frequently asked amazon questions on leetcode. Had 7 responses for the LPs prepared and answered them by just presenting them differently for different LP.
My advice would be for coding generally prepare questions based on algorithms rather than frequent ones. If you're good at one area no point in practising them again and again.
For LPs prepare stories generally which covers 2-3 topics rather than for each question. This will be a lot easier for both prep and answering unexpected questions.