I was asked 2 LC hard in Amazon onsite last week, I thought Amazon hiring bar was relatively lower.
I interviewed at Amazon Music last week and was asked 2 leetcode hard during onsite. 1. Merge K sorted lists 2. Word Ladder II Also, this happened after 20 mins of behavioral questions on LP, so you're supposed to solve LC hard within 30 mins, 10 mins, in the end, to ask the questions to the interviewer. TC:300K
Happens at Amazon and msft. Most of the interviewers are leetcoding themselves. They even know if you have seen the question .
Yoe?
I bet < 3 YOE
7 300K TC with < 3 YOE?
Lol. So sorry for you. However, I feel these 2 are like LRU cache, considered hard but are kinda medium if you have already solved then it can be done in 30 mins.
I agree with this. OP has 2 options: 1) complain and feel sorry for themselves 2) learn merge sort
Merge K sorted lists is not hard man 😂
But word ladder is
It’s not hard if you’ve seen it, god I hate this industry
Merge k sorted is not hard! :D
Which solution would you use on an interview? I used a heap and got 28% better so it must be a bruteforceish / not.optimal?
Rule at Amazon is that we will only make offers to people unless they are better than half the people in the role they are interviewing for. We do take it seriously and by definition it means all new hires must raise the bar. Comments about the hiring bar are peanut gallery bullshit.
Seems like you interviewed for SDE2+. Amazon hiring bar is lower for entry level SDE positions.
I got asked "Merge K Sorted list" and "Max profit when you buy and sell stock" on my Facebook Phone screen! Ofcourse, I failed it 😂 - I solved both but I missed edge cases
At least those are commonly known problems
The interviewer is probably studying for interviews himself and used recent questions he’d practiced, feeling cute!
Feeling cute 🤣🤣🤣 someone's following the meme train! 🚆 Chhoo chhoo!