Status: New grad, BS CS Pakistan
Position: Graduate SDE at Amazon
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: April 22, 2020

Timeline

• Applied late January directly on website
• Received OA 3 parts
  -First part: Debugging (7/7)
  -Second part: Coding- 2 LC problems (all test cases passed) followed by a small work style assessment
  -Third part: Work environment simulation followed by logical ability test
• Received notification of passing the OA on March 11th and was put into waiting list for onsite
• Received virtual onsite invite on April 3rd. Interview scheduled for April 22
  Virtual Onsite
• Three 1-hour interviews. First half was lots of questions on Leadership Principles while the other half was coding.
• The coding problems, I felt, weren't really difficult at all as much as I was expecting.
• I got nervous and feel like I kind of messed up the first interview which I believe must be the main cause of rejection.
• Interviewers were all really nice.
• Received rejection 5 business days later.

Key Takeaways

• Tbh, I wasn't really expecting to make it to Amazon. However, the past few months have taught me that it is not really THAT HARD to qualify. I think the techincal questions asked throughout were pretty easy.
• Practice and prepare LP stories thoroughly!
• Every interviewer has their own style of asking questions. The first and third interviewers just verbally spoke the technical problem to me and I had to ask questions and build everything from scratch. The 2nd interviewer gave me a problem very much like what we do here on LC, with the method structure, sample inputs and outputs etc. I think my 2nd interview was my best.
• None of my questions were from the LC Amazon tags.
• I'm disappointed, but I am sure that I will make it one day
• LC community is amazing!