Interviews: 3 coding, 1 system design, 1 experience
Interview timeline : Oct-Nov 2024
Verdict : Pass
region -usa

Interview time 45 min. You are short on time so make the most of it. If you know the approach to the solution and the interviewer agrees with it, directly jump into it don't waste time discussing other approaches. Try to solve easy question within 8-10 min so that you have enough time to cover the hard/medium ones. Time the problems while practicing leetcode, that helps.

Coding questions were all Leetcode Meta tagged. Prepped by practicing Meta tagged questions from last 3-6 months with frequencey 33% and above.

Tech screen coding
Q1 merge-k-sorted-lists
Q2 diagonal-traverse (matrix)

Coding Round 1
Q1 Dont remember the question exactly but it was about string manipulation more towards easy level
Q2 vertical-order-traversal-of-a-binary-tree

Coding Round 2
Q1 random-pick-with-weight (the problem statement was different but same approach)
Q2 Dont remember the question exactly but it was about string manipulation more towards Medium level. Expand a compressed string e.g. input: ab3c2d output: abbbccd. There was more to the question, not able to find similar one on Leetcode. Problem solving was straightforward but I felt that the interviewer was majorly looking at the implementation (clean code) and the handling of edge cases. There were few edge cases that I identified and addressed.

System Design: Design a system like ticket master

Experience round: Prepping for Amazon's leadership principles and stories helped. Questions are similar e.g. How did you handle a situation when you had to give a critical feedback to co-worker?

Mock interview (In September - Meta dosn't do mock anymore)
Q1 : Three sum
Q2 : letter-combinations-of-a-phone-number