Education : Bachelor’s in CS from top 20 schools in USA.
Experience: 8 months
Leetcode: Rating ~1800
Easy ~100 Medium - 250 Hard ~40

Recruiter reached out in December.

Online Assessment: [early Jan]
2 questions with space+time explainations (70 minutes)

1st question: HashMap and 2 poiners. [Medium question but never seen this question on leetcode]
2nd question: https://leetcode.com/problems/minesweeper/ diguised version of this [BFS].

Finished OA in ~30 mins and later completed Leadership principles which was multiple choice type.

Result: Recruiter contacted and I was informed that I was directly moved to onsite rounds skipping phone interview becasuse I did really well on my OA.

after ~1 month I scheduled for final rounds.

Onsite Virtual Interview:[Feb 1st]

Round 1: [1 software engineer was spectating and other one was interviewing ]
2 leadership principles: [~35 mins]

1. Introductions [5 mins]
2. Tell me about a time when you delivered on a tight deadline and multiple follows up on my answer.
3. Tell me about a time you failed and what would you do differently and multiple follow ups.
   There were questions also questions releaded to customer obsession

Coding Part: [10-15 mins]

1. disguised version of this https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/.
   explained algorithm and finished the coding part.

Round 2: [Round with hiring manager]
Leadership principles [10-15 mins]

1. Tell me about a time when you delivered on a tight deadline and multiple follows up on my answer.
2. Questions based on "Dive Deep" and "Learn and be curious" [These are all leadership principles which you need to memorise sadly].

White Board coding: [I had to draw boxes and everything with mouse, it was sad] [30 mins]
Design Amazon Locker. Question was very vague, had to ask many clarifying questions.

Classes, Interfaces, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism was tested.

This interview was pretty short, hiring manager said he was happy with my solution, at the end there was Q/A.

Round 3:
Leadership principles [30 mins]

1. Tell me about a time when you delivered on a tight deadline and multiple follows up on my answer.
2. Questions based on "insist on high standards" and "biased for action".

Coding question: [30-40 mins]

1. Merge 2 sorted lists, Explained brute force and coded optimal soultion
2. Follow up Merge K sorted lists, explained Optimial and coded almost optimal solution
3. Asked to optimize space for Merge K sorted lists, we were discussing Space and Time Trade offs

We ran out of time and other interviewer showed up already.

1. Tell me about a time when you delivered on a tight deadline and multiple follows up on my answer. [Yes this question has been asked 4 times, I ran out of answers. So, I asked interviewer to change the question and he was happy to change it]. He modified question a bit.
2. Questions related to "backbone disagree and commit"

Round 4:
Leadership Principles [30 mins]

Coding:

1. Direct from leetcode https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break/ Explained optimal solution and coded [15-20 mins]
2. Several questions on Object Oriented Design. [5-10 mins]

Q/A with 2 engineers for [5-10] mins.

// Waiting for results.

Updated - offer received TC 186k