Process took about a month since applying.
YOE: 0 years as a developer, but 3 years as technical support. Got my BS in CS a few years back.
Round 1: OA
- 2 coding questions (can't remember what they were)
- Short workstyle assessment
I remember passing all test cases on the OA.
About a week later, recruiter reached out asking to schedule virtual onsite.
I scheduled the onsite for a week and a half later.
Virtual Onsite:
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Round 1: LP and LLD OOD question
- LP took about 30 mins
- OOD took 25 mins
- OOD was along the lines of you have certain Amazon devices, create and design the features/functions for these devices
- On a scale of 1/10 on how well I think I did, I'd give it a 7
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Round 2: LP and LC Hard question (https://leetcode.com/problems/serialize-and-deserialize-binary-tree/)
- LP took about 30 mins
- Coding part I was able to write serialize fairly quickly but had trouble with deserialize
- On a scale of 1/10 on how well I think I did, I'd give it a 6
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Round 3: LP and LC Medium question
- LP took about 30 mins
- Coding question was very similar to number islands question, but with all 8 directions instead of 4.
- Solved the coding part fairly quick, gave a bfs solution.
- On a scale of 1/10 on how well I think I did, I'd give it a 9
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Round 4: LP and HLD OOD question
- LP took about 30 mins
- Build a Cinema OOD, almost System Design.
- Only was able to come up with a few functions, interviewer was very helpful and suggested other functions
- On a scale of 1/10 on how well I think I did, I'd give it a 7
Even though the process was very tedious and 4 hours of straight interviewing is annoying, the interviewers were very helpful. I don't think I had any issues with the LP questions, althought I may have answered some in a non STAR format and my lack of experience, I had to reuse some stories for different interviewers.
Took a few days to hear back, recruiter reached out and said that the interviewers thought I needed more time/experience and suggested I re-apply once the year cooldown is off.