Status: 3 years of experience at top 5 software company, BS CS top 20 public school
Position: SDE2 at Amazon
Location: Seattle
Date: October 2019
Online assement:
2 Medium techincal questions passed
Onsite interview (4 rounds):
Round 1: [System Design]
- Design a metrics system for the product I was interviewing for, this round went pretty good but could have had some stumbles.
Round 2: [Coding]
- 2 leetcode mediums I had seen before and solved optimally with plenty of time to spare:
- Asked some behaviorial questions
Round 3: [Coding]
- https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder I've seen this question before and only had 30 minutes to solve it, I solved it on my own and was given one small optimization hint I did not ask for
- More behavioral questions
Round 4:
- Amazon leadership principle questions
I'm sort of shocked I didn't get the offer. I solved all of the questions optimally and efficiently. I know I did that as these questions are on leetcode. I'm generally very good at behaviorial questions, but there could have been some kind of mess up there. Since I have my previous interview experience and current role to compare I think I did exteremely well in this interview, maybe the best/luckiest I have ever gotten. Any ideas why they would reject me? Maybe my experience didn't match up?