Amazon | SDE2 | Bangalore | May 2022 | Offer
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Interview Experience:
All the rounds were conducted virtually over chime. The interviews were for SDE3 position.

For preparation, I solved coding questions on leetcode, mostly medium. Total of ~130 questions over 2-3 months. I solved mostly the questions for Facebook. High level design, In addition to me experience, I read about various components of High Level Design and how and when to use them followed by few videos and documents at CodeKarle

Round 1:
Focus: High Level Design

  •   Design package delivery system
    Behavariol:
  •   Tell me a situation where you made an impact at org level
  •   Tell me a situation where you suggested a change

Round 2
Focus: High Level Design

  •    Design Payment Gateway
    Behavariol:
  •    Tell me something that you did to help the organization.
  •    Tell me something that you build from scratch.

Round 3:
Focus: Coding:

  •    Print next 5 smallest number in a BST.
    Behavorial:
  •    Any situation where you were blocked.

Round 4:
Focus: Hiring Manager

  •    Tell me a sitaution where you had to convince someone.
  •    Tell me a situation where you did Code Review and Design Review.
  •    Tell me a situation where you have you mentored someone.

Round 5:
Focus: Bar Raiser | High Level Design:

  •    Design a rating system for e-commerce platform.
    Behavarioul:
  •   Situation where you automated something.
  •   Situation for a project which was challenging for you. 

Extra round:
Focus: Review previous system designs, what could have been done better.
Behavarioul:

  •   Situation where mentored someone more experienced than you.

After all the discussions, was down leveled to SDE2 with an offer to fastrack promotion to SDE3. The reason I got was the complexity of work that I have explained in the behavarioul questions was not at par for a SDE3 at amazon.
Compensation Details: Amazon (Offer) | Microsoft (Offer) | Adobe (Offer)
Other Interview Experiences:
Microsoft Interview Experience
Adobe Interview Experience

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