**Current employment status**: 3 years experience in startups.\n**Position**: SDE2 at Amazon\n**Location**: Bangalore, India\n**Date**: March 26, 2020\n\n### Interview Process:\n\n**Round 1: Online Coding**\n- a coding challenge with two questions (up to 90 min)\n  -   A variation of [Minimum time to rot all oranges](https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/)\n  -   Evaluating top N Competitors of Amazon echo from reviews received by Crawling websites.\n- "describe your approach" section to discuss your coding solutions (up to 15 min)\n- a work style survey (up to 15 min)\n- a feedback survey (5 min)\n\n**Round 2: DS & Algo** (1 hour)\n\n- [Square root of a number](https://leetcode.com/problems/sqrtx/)\n- [Bottom view of a Binary Tree](https://www.***.org/bottom-view-binary-tree/)\n- Some situational questions like a situation where you came up with a quick hacky solution to save time.\n\n**Round 3: DS & Algo** (1 hour)\n\n- [Design a Data Structure that supports Insertion, Deletion, search and getRandom in constant time.](https://leetcode.com/problems/insert-delete-getrandom-o1/)\n- [All Nodes at distance k in a BT](https://leetcode.com/problems/all-nodes-distance-k-in-binary-tree/)\n- Some situational questions like a situation where you were helped out a colleague, etc\n\n**Round 4: Design Round** (1 hour)\n\n- Design an IP Blocking system. Asked for multiple approaches along with their pros and cons.\n- Design a Logger.\n- Why Amazon?\n\n**Round 5: Hiring Manager Round (SDM)** (1 hour)\nThis round mainly focuses on presenting situations that test the candidate\u2019s compatibility with Amazon. You are evaluated based on your Leadership and Ownership principles. You will be asked a lot of situational questions like\n\n- Brief Introduction\n- Innovative solutions you came up with in your previous company.\n- Conflict with manager\n- A situation where a colleague helped you out.\n- How did you handle tasks with a strict deadline?\n- How do you go about approaching a new task at hand?\netc.\n\n**Round 5: Bar Raiser** ( 1 hour)\n\n- Brief Introduction\n- Design a Job Scheduler. Drawbacks of the system I designed. How to implement a recurring job? Further optimizations.\n- Situational questions like the biggest technical challenge I faced, A situation where I had to fix someone else\u2019s bug, etc.\n\nThe process was very smooth.  My HR was very supportive. The Amazon interviewers are very friendly and give you hints if you get stuck. Be sure to handle every edge case and come up with multiple approaches wherever feasible.\n\nI got a call 2 days after the Bar Raiser Round confirming my selection.

Current employment status: 3 years experience in startups.\nPosition: SDE2 at Amazon\nLocation: Bangalore, India\nDate: March 26, 2020\n\n### Interview Process: