Status : Working in a local Company
YOE : 4 years
Position : SDE2 at Amazon
Location : Madrid, Spain
Date : 22nd April, 2020

Hi folks. As it was my first time interviewing with a FAANG company, I was nervous at first. I was contacted by the recruiter at LinkedIn. After passing Online assessment and phone screening, I was invited to Onsite. I had one month for the whole process. I tried to prepare myself best for this. I leetcoded for one month. I got contacted by the recruiter after 4 days and she said they are not willing to proceed with me. I was expecting this, so it was okay. She said I had done great in behavioral but my technical skills are not good. She suggested me to apply for Technical PM role. As I love coding, I am quite depressed after hearing that. I am still trying to recover from it. God help me.

Some suggestions :

1. Do not get distracted by interviewers behavior(I felt one of the interviewer's was not paying attention when I was trying to communicate)
2. LP's are important.
3. Practice LeetCode hard because you will have to come up with atleast brute force solution within 5 - 10 minutes.
4. Prepare yourself for long tiring 4 hour long interview.
5. After each interview, erase everything what happened in that interview to do well in the next one.

Best of luck.