Current Status

Status: 8 years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer
Current Position: SDE III at a small-medium level company
Interview Date: August 10, 2020

Fisrt session 60 mins

	2 LP Questions 
		* 	Any complex problem that you solved in a simple way 
		* 	Above and Beyond story
	LLD Question 
		Design an in-memory SQL lib, implement createTable(), insertRecord(), deleteRecord() and updateRecord()
		He asked me to stop coding after implementing the first two functions and started asking threading and locking questions. 
		Some more followup questions, about Abstraction
		Overall this session went very well

Second session 60 mins

 Started with background and current projects discussion
 Stock Buy and Sell Problem
	 https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/
 I solved it pretty quickly. He asked to make multiple transactions to maximaze the profit.
	 https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock-ii/
 I was able to present the idea but could not complete the code
 
 So this session was above average 

Third session 60 mins

 2 LP Questions
	* 	 very common questions 
	1. Merge intervals 
		https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/
		
	I was able to solve it on time. Dry run over few examples. 
	This session went pretty good 

Fouth session Hiring Manger 60 minutes

Lot of LP Questions. He also gave me 15 minutes to ask questions. I had a lot of questions for him.

Last Session 60 minutes

30 minutes LP
30 minutes design. Started with the basic design, and scaled afterwards for a city and a country now there were only two minutes left. He asked what will you change in the design if we go global. I replied we'll distribute the application and database servers geographically. He said well, what else, I could not answer, he asked again, just one thing that you can think off, my answer was incorrect and he asked third time and I got a feeling that I've failed the session because of this question.
Still, I was hopeful becuase of the other four rounds that went well and the design was also not that bad.

Reject
I got a call from recruiter that we cannot consider you this time and cannot share the feedback but you have to learn more about system design. I was little depressed to hear that but obviously I need to put more effort to win the game.

Phone Interview Post

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/753413/amazon-sde-ii-phone-interview-passed/629093