Huge shout out to the leetcode community for sharing great solutions to the problems!

Summary
Experience: 3.10 years as Software Development Engineer
Education: NIT (National Institute of Technology)
Previous Role: Software Development Engineer
Leetcode: ~160 ( 37 easy, 102 medium, 21 hard)
Date: First week of May 2020. The whole process took over 3 weeks.

Inteview Experience

Round 1 (Online Assessment):

1. Online Assessment which had two questions to finish within an hour. One needs to code really fast as questions were very lengthy in terms of writing code.

~ Next rounds were virtual onsite

Round 2 (Coding):

1. Design a data structure to implement following methods getMax(), top(), push(), pop() in O(1) time complexity.
2. Buy and sell stocks with atmost k transactions

Round 3 (Coding):

1. Leadership questions - explain the situation where you had conflict with your manager/colleague
2. Find the maximum sum in the window of size at least k
3. Connect nodes at the same level in a tree (final solution with O(1) space complexity)

Round 4 (HM Round/Design):

1. Thorough discussion on my current project. Deep dive into the design of the project.
2. Explain the siutation where you did not complete the task within the deadline.
3. Explain the case when customer was not satisfied with your solution.
4. Design shopping cart. Discussion over caching, out of stock items, api services etc (only HLD)

Round 5 (Design):

1. Questions on Amazon's Leadership principles
2. Design Instagram (HLD, Database Schema and LLD)

Round 6 (Bar Raiser):

1. First 30 mins, questions were only based on Amazon's leadership principles. (Prepare answers for the questions related to Amazon's 14 leadership principles)
2. A variation of "find next greater element for every element in an array".

Overall Experience

1. Very positive
2. Recruiters were outstanding and super helpful
3. Interviews were challenging

Good luck to all who have upcoming interviews!