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Amazon | SDE2 | Austin | May 2024 [Reject]
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Intro/Background
YOE : 5 yrs
Designation: SDE 3
Previous Company: Expedia (Currently laid off)
OA
OA 1: Bag of rice. Found another post here with snapshot: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/2688170/New-OA-Question%3A-Bags-of-Rice
OA 2: The other was to schedule tasks: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/5152782/Amazon-or-OA-or-AWS-Task-Scheduler
On-site
I do not really remember any of the behavioral questions I received, but I had two per round.
1st Interview (System Design):
Design a order and payement system for restaurants.
2nd Interview (LLD/Class Design): Basically https://leetcode.com/problems/design-file-system/
3rd Interview (DSA): Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/word-break-ii/description/ but instead of returning path for one word, you had to find all base words that were not made up of other words.
4th Interview(DSA): Write a solution that can take in an input of meeting rooms that have users and the time stamps they either enter or exit, and a user who is sick and return all the other users who were exposed.
- I am not sure if there was an extra piece of a transitive property since I forgot to ask (i.e if A got B sick, than B could also get C sick).
Overall Experience
Last time I interviewed at Amazon, it didn't seem like the people wanted to be there. This interview was drastically better. With that being said, I remembered seeing all of these before and could verbally mention how to solve but I totally blanked on the coding part. I have solved close to 100 problems and had even seem all of the problems or variants before and just could not for the life of me recall how to do the implementations.