Amazon | Intern | Seattle | Oct 2019 [Offer]
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Status: 1 prior internship in biotech, Junior at top CS school
Position: SDE Intern at Amazon
Location: Seattle
Final Interview Date: Oct 31, 2019

OAs:

OA1: 7/7 passed with a couple minutes to spare. Basically, if you've ever worked on a medium-sized coding project this should be a breeze. 

OA2: Got two easy, easy-medium questions: passed all test cases for both with ~40-50 minutes to spare. Optimal (or close to optimal) for both. 

OA3: Thought I did well on the work simulation (just kept LPs in mind and used common sense otherwise). Logic was straightforward (got ~20/24 imo).
	
	

Final Video interview:

This is kind of where things got a little off-track. Interviewer was a tad late and did not know the format expected (we spent the first ~45 minutes on behavioral/LP + technical trivia and then stayed overtime to complete the entire process). Standard behavioral questions as well as technical questions regarding OOP, data structures and their trade-offs, implementation details of a hashtable, etc.

He then asked how long the HR said the interview should be, and when I told him 45 minutes, he was willing to end the interview there (but said that he wanted to ask a coding question if I was available). I flubbed some of the OOP questions, so I agreed to stay and continue the interview.

Algo question was LC easy and the follow up was LC-easy/med (involved a DFS modification). Solved both and explained my approach fairly well (although my approach for the follow-up was not optimal). Enumerated and discussed edge cases.

Overall a very pleasant interview; the interviewer was a senior engineer and was friendly and accomodating the entire time. Honestly did not mind that the interview ended up running almost double the time scheduled. Should have brushed up on OOP and I recommend to anyone interviewing to do so, as well as preparing for behavioral by looking over LPs and having experiences ready to draw upon. Felt algo prep from reading EPI + LC practice was pretty sufficient for the algorithm questions.

EDIT: Recieved an offer on Thursday!

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