Amazon | SDE-2 | Canada | Reject

Company: Amazon
Position: SDE 2 (L5)
Interview Date: April 2024

Online Assessmen (OA):

• Question 1: Heap (Priority Queue) question. Fruit Crush.
• Question 2: ...

Virtual On-site interview:

• Round 1 (DS&A):
  Backtracking qestion
  Similar to Combination Sum II

• Round 2 (Low Level Design):
  The unix grep command allows you to search for text in a file. Implement the following use cases for grep:

1. Basic search that retrieves lines containing a string
2. Search that allows regular expressions
3. Search that inverts the search (find lines that don't match a pattern)
4. Display matced patterns using a specific colour

• Round 3 (DS&A):
  Merge K sorted arrays qestion
  Similar to Merge k Sorted Lists
• Round 4 (High Level Design):
  Configuration Manager System Design

Result: rejected, no feedback provided

This was my first interview at a FAANG company. I did my best to prepare, but it seems like it wasn't enough. There are areas I need to improve. I will continue the grind. :)