I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2021
Interview
I applied through a referral after I got a coding test link in which they've asked 2 coding problems and some reasoning questions. After that, I've got into the first technical round in which the interviewer asked me 3 DSA problems and I solved them. On the same day, I got a call from HR about my second round in that round interviewer asked me 2 DSA problems and we discussed a bit on projects as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. OA : there were 2 coding problems given as well as reasoning given.
2. In my first technical round interviewer asked me about introduce yourself. Then asked me first DSA problem : generate all balanced parantheses string of size N
Second question was : find max elements of every K sized window in array.
Third question was : bottom level view of tree.
3. In second round of technical interview first she asked me about introduction and then projects that I've created and what kind of issues I've faced and how I resolved and what I learnt from that? After that we directly move forward with DSA question.
First question was about prefix sum and query.
Second question was finding LCA in binary tree.
It had 2 rounds, and each one had some behavioral questions as well as one technical question. The behavioral questions were about different group work situations that I had before, and I had to describe them. The technical questions were LeetCode medium.
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Question 1
Describe a situation when you had a conflict with your supervisor.
The role I was interviewed for is SDET. It was through our campus placements. There was an initial screening test, followed by 2 more online interview rounds. The screening round consisted of 7 chapters, like OOPS, Database, Linux, Computer Networks, Programming and so on.
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Question 1
The screening round was an online test for like 3 hours. It went well, and I was selected for that. But in the actual interview, I was initially asked about my projects and 2 DSA Questions. The first DSA question was a maximum subarray-based question, and the second question was a finding the shortest path in a graph-based question
The interview was heavily focused on GenAI and Amazon Leadership Principles. The Technical Manager did a deep dive into my approach to prompting LLMs and how I optimize workflows using them. In contrast, the SDE Engineer’s questions were more direct and strongly centered around Leadership Principles.
