Online AssessmentsOnline Assessments
--OA 1: Debugging Round
Was only able to complete 6/7 of the questions
--OA 2: Technical Round
.Two Sum - Unique Pairs
.Don't remember the second question one Passed all test cases on both questions.
--OA 3: Work Style Simulation and Logical Reasoning Round
Virtual Interview - 3 rounds
- Round 1
The interviewer had been working for Amazon for 4 years.
Started the interview with projects(asked a lot's of follow-ups)
then comes the technical question -
Merge Intervals - (and I was so happy "yes I will smash it" I have done this question just a day ago). he asked a lot of things gave me some more edge cases.
we are left with just a couple of minutes then he asked me to ask any question if I have (You all know those same questions )
first round went well
ROUND 2
The interviewer had been working for Amazon for a couple of years. (was a Russain by name)
Started directly with a technical question
The question he asked - https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder-ii/
It was a pretty difficult question but I have done word ladder question so I was to able solve word ladder but it took me almost 30 min to solve and then he switched for behavioral questions
ROUND 3
There were two interviewers but only asked the question second was just watching us.
He started with a behavioral question and then after 5-7 min, he moved to a technical question.
https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-zigzag-level-order-traversal/
I was a little confused with the question but with his help, I was able to solve this question.
TAKE AWAY
- I think it's a matter of luck, I am not the super-intelligent guy and i have seen so many intelligent students from my class who got rejected, but yes LUCK can't help you if you can't solve easy -mid-level leetcode question (not all at least few from each topic). JUST KEEP PUSHING KEEP GRINDING
MY PREP
I used to watch leetcode youtube videos from the following channels -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKvwPt6BifPP54yzH99ff1g (FOR JAVA) - he have solved almost all questions for Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv01QY3luj6ABXZE0HnUvzA (FOR PYTHON SOLUTION) - this guy explains things pretty well and I got 2 question from his videos ( have code and explanation in his videos)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g (PYTHON in general)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJz2DV1a3yfgrR7GqRtUUA - he explains questions very well but don't write the code
https://www.youtube.com/user/tusharroy2525 - he is "TUSHAR ROY"
Leetcode, geeksforgeeks