Amazon | SDE-I New Grad | US
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Timeline: Applied around September 2020. Received Online Assessment back in January 2021.

Online Assessment
OA1 - 7 Debugging questions to fix them. I did 4/7.
OA2 - 2 Coding questions. I don't remember questions but completed 1/2.
OA3 - Work Simulation related to their Leadership Principles

Final Interview
Round 1
Went through my resume. No Leadership Principle questions

Coding question
Medium string question

Round 2
Tell me about a situation when you had no time to explore all the paths for a particular problem and choosen one. what was the outcome?
There were more questions but I forgot.

Coding question
Easy array question

Round 3
Tell me about a situation when you needed to do work something outside your responsibility.
Tell me about a project where you exceeded expenctations.

Coding question
General question, asking time complexity for a specific recursive function
https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-palindromic-substring/

Review
I think there was no bar raiser question and I should have spent more time on LP questions. One of the interviwers asked me if there was a time I can't finish the task I promised. I thought so hard to come up with the situation but I just said I don't promise in the first place if I don't see it achievable. No STAR Format, just one sentence. You can see I did poorly on LP cuz I focused too much on coding questions. Please, be prepared and have some experience ready for different questions.

On the other hand, it was interesting that coding question was easy-medium LC. Probably becasue it's for New Grad position?

Anyway, I'm just happy that I'm finally done with the interview and waiting for the result.
Hope this helps!

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