AMAZON | SDE New Grad 2022 | London, UK | Indian | [Offer]
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  • Education : B.Tech in Computer Science, Tier 3 University, India
  • Prior Experience : 3 Internships in Product Based Companies.
  • Postion Offered : Software Development Engineer 1
  • Company : Amazon Inc.
  • Team Offered : Vendor Tools
  • Location : London, England, United Kingdom
  • Date of the Offer : March / 20th / 2022

Compensation Break-Down, Amazon London :-

  • Base Salary : £55,000 /-
  • Sign-On Bonus: £12k first year, £10k second year
  • Stocks : £39,000 /- Over 4 Years, Back-Loaded (5%, 15%, 40%, 40%)
  • Relocation : $9,000/-(After Taxed) or Amazon Assisted Relocation Support
  • Perks : Standard Amazon Benfits.
  • Total Compensation 1st year (Base + Sign-On First Year+ 5% Stocks + Relocation) : ~£77,000/- (Pre-Taxes) LOW BALLED
  • NOTE : Non-Negotiable (as all new grad jobs comes under student programs)
  • Round 1 and 2 were held consecutively and Round 3 was held after Round 2 with a 30-minute break.
  • Each Every Round was divided into 2 halves : -
    1. Leadership Principles [25-30 minutes]
    2. Technical/Coding [30-35 mintues]
NOTE :-
1. ALL THE QUESTIONS THEY ASKED ME HAD TWO OR THREE MORE FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. WHETHER IT WAS LP's OR CODING!!
2. THE CODE YOU WILL WRITE `MUST BE` 75% - 85% PRODUCTION READY !!

A) ROUND 1 :- Taken by SDE-2 [62 Minutes Precisely]

Leadership Principles Questions:-
1. Tell me a time when you took a risk, did it pay off? What would have you done differently?
2. Have you ever failed at something? What did you learn from it?
3. Have you ever had to make a tough decision without consulting anybody? (bias for action)

Coding Question(s) : -
1. LRU Cache (Cliché Question):-  https://leetcode.com/problems/lru-cache/ (Discuss + Coding)
2. Follow Up, Changed the question to LFU Cache :- https://leetcode.com/problems/lfu-cache/  (Discuss Only)

B) ROUND 2 :- Taken by SDE-1 [60 Minutes Precisely]

Leadership Principles Questions:-
1. Time when you didn't meet a deadline?
2. Have you ever gone out of your way to help a peer? (ownership)
3. Tell me about a time when your teammate didn't agree with you? What did you do?

Coding Question(s) : -
1. Missing Number (Warm-Up Question):-  https://leetcode.com/problems/missing-number/ (Discuss + Coding)
2. First Missing Positive :- https://leetcode.com/problems/first-missing-positive/  (Discuss + Coding)

C) ROUND 3 :- Taken by Senior SDE [66 Minutes Precisely]

Leadership Principles Questions:-
1. Time when you needed help from somebody?
2. Tell me about a time where you had limited time and how it impacted?
3. Tell me about a time when your teammate didn't agree with you? What did you do?

Coding Question(s) : -
1. Morris Traversal (Hard):- you can find it on GFG  (Discuss + Coding)
2. N-ary Tree Traversal (Recursive):- https://leetcode.com/problems/n-ary-tree-preorder-traversal/  (Discuss + Coding)

Updated 1:: Conclusion :- Offer!! I Changed My location to Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.!
Updated 2 :: Joined Google, London

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