Amazon Software Engineer II SDE2 interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2021
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Had an OA with leetcode medium easy.
After that had a one hour telephonic interview with recruiter for general resume and work ex and leadership principle questions.
After that there was the final virtual onsite interview. 4 1 hour long interviews with same format : First 15 mins would be leadership principles, next 40 mins technical interview and last 5 mins questions for them.
I was asked 3 coding questions and 1 System design.
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Question 1
OA:
Both the questions were same as from a leetcode discuss link which has about 20 questions.
Onsite:
1. Number of islands (recursive and iterative both)
2. Leaf-Similar Trees without using an extra n space (872 on leetcode)
3. Best time to buy and sell stocks I & II (but instead of the profit return indices of when to buy and sell.
4. System design: Design the promo code (coupon code) system for amazon to avail discounts on products in cart.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
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Got call from a hiring agency from naukri. Scheduled the interview over week end. Had 3 rounds of interview. Coding, HLD, LLD. Design level questions are more important. After 3 rounds there will be a another round with board member.
Applied for the spring hiring event on LinkedIn. received OA after 1 day of application. Prepared for a week. Failed because of the time pressure and the codes didn't passe half of the test cases.
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Question 1
Some algorithm problems. Sorting, longest increasing numbers