First Round:
Completed online assessment:
- 2 Coding Questions ( ~75 mins)
- K closest to origin (#973)
- Easy BFS shortest path question
- Short Behavioral questionaire
Second Round / Virtual Onsite:
- Asked to design a Amazon locker system. Requirements not given, but had a nice talk with the interviewer about approaches and uses.
- Asked to design a music playlist system. I was told by the recruiter that this round woud not include any coding, however interviewer seemed to expect my to write code, so I was a little caught of gaurd.
- ANOTHER OOP design question given some products (images / ebook), create a system to check conditions and send to associated target. System should be scalable to handle adding new checks and targets without modification. Interviewer saw my struggle and we were able to come up with a somewhat coherent solution together.
- LRU Cache
Takeaways: Recruiter told me not to worry about system design problems given my 0 YOE, but I find it strange that I was asked only heavily leaning OOP questions. I found this a little unfair for an SDE 1 given most preparation materials and online resources said they asked DS/Algo questions.