Status: Master of Computer Science
Position: SDE Intern at Amazon
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: Nov 6, 2019
OA - Online Assesment
OA 1 - Debugging Round [20 Minutes]
7 debugging questions in C/C++/Java on this round
Easy, find logical error, need to change operators, loops, just small errors.
OA 2 - Technical Round [70 mins]
Got 2 easy-medium LeetCode questions
One was https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/ and other one was a simple application of the 2-pointer approach.
OA 3 - Work simulation [2.5 hours]
Focus on Amazon Leadership Principles and provide answers based on the principles.
Code review
Simple designing code
Little long as compared to other two rounds
Includes logical ability test: 24 questions in 30 minutes (simple questions)
Final Interview - Went on for about 1 hour
Asked 2 behavioral questions
Helpful Article: Interviewing at Amazon — Leadership Principles
Technical question: difficulty level medium
Start with the basic approach, do not try to optimize from the start itself.
Was asked a problem to remove couple elements from a list, for eg [1,2,2,3,4] would output [1,3,4] and [1,2,4,4,2] would give [1].
This was followed by a little modified follow up.
Timeline:
Online application: 08/26/2019
OA1 : 9/23/2019
OA2 : 9/25/2019
OA3 : 9/29/2019
Final Round : 11/01/2019
Offer : 11/06/2019