Status: Currently working as a Software Engineer, MS in Computer Science
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Experience: 3 years
Location: Seattle
Date: June 2020

Telephonic Round:

I was asked a question on Trees which is of a medium level difficulty. Then asked a Design Question & Then asked 2-3 LP questions. This round lasted for 1 hour 5 mins. I cleared this round & was asked to attend Virtual Onsite.

Virtual On-site:

Round 1:
Introduced myself.
There were two interviewers ( 1 Main Interviewer + 1 shadow Interviewer). Both were SDE. Asked LP for 15 Minutes & then asked a question on Strings which was of Medium level difficulty. Tackled the problem in a calm way and solved the question. Then the interviewer asked for the follow up question and answered him correctly. Explained the Time and Space Complexity of both the approaches. He & the Shadow interviewer were pretty much satisified and wished me good luck for the next round.
5 mins of reverse interview at the End.

Round 2:
It was with the SDE.
Introduced myself.
Asked LP for 15 Minutes & then asked a question on Strings which was of Medium level difficulty. Tackled the problem in a calm way as above and solved the question. Then the interviewer asked for the follow up question and answered him correctly. 5 minutes left in the interview , he asked me if i can code the optimal solution, i said yes and implemented it fast. He was very much satisfied with my solutions.
5 mins reverse interview.
He wished me good luck and gave me a High-Five at the end :).

Round 3:
This was with SDM.
Introduced myself.
Asked LP for 20 minutes.
Asked a Object Oriented Design Question.
Reverse Interview for 5 minute. He was very much pleased with all my answers. He asked me to do well in the last round as well.

Round 4:
This was bar raiser. This was with SDM from another team.
Interviewer asked LP for 20 minutes with lots of follow up questions.
then asked a hard question on Dynamic programming. I handled the situation calmly and came up with a solution and implemented it. Gave the time & space complexity of the solution. She was happy that i was able to implement the solution for the hard problem.
5 mins of reverse interview.

At the end of the interview, I was happy with my performance.

Resources I used :

1. Leetcode for problem solving.
2. for LeadershipPrinciples :
   https://interviewgenie.com/blog-1/category/Behavioral+questions
   https://medium.com/@scarletinked/are-you-the-leader-were-looking-for-interviewing-at-amazon-8301d787815d
3. for OOD, Groking the Object oriented Design course.
4. Helpful Post for cracking FAANG companies: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-interviews-for-dummies-5e048933b82b/

Final Words:

1. I worked hard and did leetcode for 3-4 hours every single day after my office hours.
2. Attended leetcode contest every week.
3. I prepared LP very well. LeaderShip principles are very important.
4. I solved 428 questions on Leetcode (E-204, M- 201, H- 23).

My HardWork in a single image:

My Motivation or what i believed in :

1. Hard Work pays off. Efforts count twice.
2. Consistency and Discpline is the key for success.
3. I will accept defeat today but not tomorrow.
4. It depends on how hard you want to achieve your Goal.

Hope this will be helpful or inspiring to someone who dreams to get into FAANG companies.