Amazon SDE-1(Interview Experience)
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I had applied on 13th of January via referral from an unknown person of Linkedin.

->Recieved OA round test link on 25th of January and I had attended it on 26th of Jan

ONLINE ASSESSMENT

I get 2 coding questions and around 60 behavioural Questions

1- This Question was Graph based Question, where i had used Priority Queue and dijktra's Algorithm to solve the Question and Passed all the test cases.

2- This Question was based on Arrays based on Binary Strings.

After 2 Weeks, I get a call from Recruiter that I had Cleared OA round and my Telephonic Interview was scheduled for 17th of Feb.

TELEPHONIC INTERVIEW

Starting with Project Discussion and then asked 2 Questions

1- Hard level Leetcode Question based on Binary Trees, I Explained him the Approach and he was satisfied with my Approach.

2- Priority Queue based Question based on finding distances, I easily Understand the Question and after that he asked some follow-up Questions based on priority-queues, then he told me to write code for the given question. I had written the correct code and he was totally satisfied with my Answers.

-> After 2 days I was able to know that I had cleared telephonic Interview and they further ready to take technical rounds. They took my Technical Interviews after 2 months and both Technical rounds are on the same day.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW-1

->After a littlebit discussion on my Industry project, he asked me one leetcode medium level Question based on Dynamic Programming.

I come up with Recursive Approach and then Memoized Approach and he was satisfied with these approaches and after that I told him the greedy Approach, but that Solution is not working for some test cases, at last I explained him DP Approach and as time is not left, he told me write code for greedy approach as it takes less time to code the solution.

TECHNICAL INTERVIEW-2

-> Interviewer Introduce herself and ask me to Introduce yourself, then she directly jumped on coding part.

1- Question was based on greedy and Strings, so, I took 5 minutes and comeup with Priority-Queue and Hashmap based Approach, then she told me to write the code for the given Approach, I had written the correct code and she moved to next Question.

2- This Question is Quite tough, it's a hard level Graph Problem, when she was asked this problem I was unable to understand the problem, so she explained the question again with some examples- then i got the concept behind the Question (it was Question based on Topological Sort and Strings), I explained my Approach to her and she told me to write the code, so I took around 20 minutes to write the code. She was totally Satisfied with my Approaches and also says all the best for my final round.

->After 2 days I get a call from HR that I had cleared both technical rounds and they are wanting to schedule Bar Raiser round(Scheduled for 2nd May).

BAR RAISER

->This Round was taken by Senior Development Manager and he had experience of near about 6-7 years at Amazon.

->During starting of this round his voice was little bit not cleared and it's tough to understand what he was saying, so I told him about this issue, after that he switched off his camera and now, his voice is quite better.

-> He asked me about my Project and leadership principle based on deliver results and I told him everything and then i told him how i handle the issues on my Project and everything. He asked me few follow-ups.

->He asked me a Question based on google based recommendation and wanting from me to write the code for same.

->Initially I was not able to understand what actually he want to ask and he even didn't give any example for that Question. So, I took one example and asked him to clear the Question, but he was not responding. I had tried my approach and try to explain him, but he was responding a single time. I even told him that sir I am in correct way or not , but he was not not saying anything.

-> At last, he asked one more leadership principle based on deadlines and I told him Answer.

-> At last I even told him, Sir if I was in right way or not please tell me I will try to solve the problem again and still we left with 25 minutes to complete the interview, but he said that it's all depend on your practice and my interview was over in just 35 minutes.

->The Behaviour of Interviewer was very poor.

->Finally, I got a rejection mail on 5th of May.

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