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Amazon Dublin SDE 2 Interview Experience

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Target Job Location - Dublin, IE
Applicant Location - India

Got shortlisted after OA

Phone Screen Round -

-30 mins of LP Questions

Q1. Tell me about a time where you created impact in customer's life. Follow up questions of this.
Q2 .One more question around deep dive.
-30 mins of coding
Q1. Similar to - https://leetcode.com/problems/compare-version-numbers/

Virtual Interviews

Round 1 -

30 mins LP -
Q1. Tell me about a time when you solved a challenging problem. Followups on why it was challenging, how did you overcome the challenges, what other approach you could have taken to solve that propblem?

30 mins coding - LLD
Q1. Design an 'n' elevator system. Also add scheduling strategies (example case : closest elevator going up should be called if a person wants to go up from 6th floor to 9th floor)

**Round 2 - **

30 mins LP -
Q1. Tell me about a time when you used customer feedback to improve the product. Multiple follow up questions around the answer
30 mins coding - DSA

Q1. Sum of all subarrays of size k( In Auxillary space)
Q2. https://leetcode.com/problems/sliding-window-maximum/description/
**Round 3 **

30 mins LP

Q1. Tell me about a time where you worked under strict deadlines. Follow up questions on the answers. How did you manage to complete. What all steps. What different approach?
Q2. Tell me about a time when you could not meet the deadline set by you/given to you. How did you communicate to leadership? What all steps did you take ? What led to delay? **
30 mins coding - LLD

Q1. Design a meeting planner for a calendar application. The planner needs to manage events, ensure that no events overlap, and provide a way to retrieve all events for a given day.
Example:
"Meeting", 09:00 - 10:00
"Workshop", 10:00 - 12:30
"Lunch Break", 12:00 - 13:00 (ovelaps with "Workshop")
**Round 4 - **
20 mins LP

Q1. Which project is very close to you and why? Follow up questions on the project
40 mins coding - LP
Q1. Design a file system to achieve the following:
Create a new file
Add content to a file
List files from a specific location/directory
Create a directory
Search a files

I was able to completely code all the questions. LP's also went fine according to me.

Verdict - Rejected (Recruiter just conveyed LP examples could have more depth, technicals were good)

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