Hi all,
Just sharing my interview experience as might be helpful to someone.
I had around 2.8yrs of Experience and I had been working in Amazon as sde FTC for past 7months, in last month of my tenure, i had started giving interviews internally to other teams in Amazon. There were 4 interview rounds taken.
Interview Round 1 | DSA Round
- Following are Exact Q's asked (2 LC- Medium)
- https://leetcode.com/problems/insert-delete-getrandom-o1/description/
- https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/description/
- Some LP Questions and I was able to solve both problems.
Interview Round 2 | LLD Round
- Manager can create a task and assign it to users, user can change status of task(completed, not_started, pending)
- Manager can also view the task he assigned to the users, at same time user can see who assigned the given task.
- This question is similar to designing Sprint TaskBoard. Apart from implementing sol, Interviewer also asked following things
- Code i written should be Thread Safety
- what are entities involved and their relationships
- Database Schema
- API's endpoints
- Apart from this, he also asked some LP Q's. At First , I was unprepared for LLD round, but interviewer helped me, whenever i got stuck. I was able to code it, this interview went over 1.5hrs.
Interview Round 3 | DSA Round
- I dont remember Question, it was related to bit manipulation. it was kind of LC-medium level, I had struggled initially, Inteviewer was kind person, gave few hints ,after which, i am able to solve the problem.
- He asked regarding experience at amazon, discussed current project am working on. few LP Q's
Interview Round 4 | Bar Raiser Round
- First 40 min interviewer asked LP Questions and 2-3 technical Questions based on projects i worked on.
- Later he asked Exact Binary Search Problem, https://leetcode.com/problems/koko-eating-bananas/description/ (LC-medium level). I had solved in remaining 20 min of time.
After One Week I got call from recruiter saying i was selected for SDE1 at Amazon. It was dream come true for me. I worked so hard for it.
Salary is same as sde1, Since, I have 2.8 years of experience, I requested a 10-15% increase in the base pay. However, the recruiter mentioned that they could only offer the standard base pay (19lpa) for an SDE1 role. Since I didn’t have any other offers at the time, I accepted the Amazon offer.
I hope you all achieve your dreams one day. I also hope this interview experience helps you in some way. Thanks!
Jai ShreeRam
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