I had applied directly for an SDE 2 opening on the Amazon Careers portal.
Online Assessment
2 Hard DSA questions.
Don't remember the questions.
Passed 15/15 for the first one and 12-13/15 for the second one.
System Design questions on DB choices, batch execution vs async messages queues etc. This section was pretty straight forward.
Behavioural assessment containing standard questions which had to be answered using options from Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree and Strongly Disagree.
Round 1 Interview
- https://leetcode.com/problems/copy-list-with-random-pointer
Solved in O(N) time and O(1) space. - https://leetcode.com/problems/first-unique-number/description/
Solved in O(N log N) time.
Leadership questions:
- Compromised quality to deliver quickly.
- Improved an existing process in your team.
Verdict : Inclined
Round 2 Interview
Design the classes and services for a Food Ordering system supporting search, sort, ordering and rating features.
Leadership questions:
- Owned a module end to end.
- Conflict with manager.
Verdict : Inclined
Round 3 Interview
High level design of a Vending Machine Leasing Company.
Leadership questions:
- Made something simple for a customer.
Verdict : Inclined
Bar Raiser
- Question very similar to : https://leetcode.com/problems/car-pooling
Instead of returning true/false, I had to return the maximum number of passengers in the car at any point.
Leadership questions:
- Went above and beyond to deliver for a customer.
- Delivered something impactful with vague requirements.
Verdict : Inclined
Final Result : Selected
Compensation : https://leetcode.com/discuss/post/7670203/amazon-sde-2-by-anonymous_user-jgx9/