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SDE2 Onsite Interview at Amazon

Asking for a friend, How important is it to do LC Hard for on site interview prep for SDE2 at Amazon? Any interviewers out there to comment? What is the interviewer looking for? Full code? Approach? Thanks!

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eBay uggsuggsj Jul 14, 2019

Focus on leadership principle questions as much as the LC medium problems

Intel \(- -)/ OP Jul 14, 2019

How about LC Hard?

Uber itsdara Jul 14, 2019

LP hard. Like tell me a time when you go against your manager's command

Intel \(- -)/ OP Jul 14, 2019

Yup, apparently the recruiter also advised to work on LP

BBDO sxYo02 Jul 21, 2019

I think the LPs are almost more important than the coding aspect. If you do okay at coding and great at LPs, it's likely better than doing great at coding and okay at LPs.

Amazon Q.E.D. Jul 14, 2019

I had one hard, one medium, one easy, and one system design. So I guess it varies.

Nvidia denvCoder9 Jul 14, 2019

I had a graph LC hard from leetcode. So you can expect a question

Amazon lifeisbear Jul 15, 2019

No LC hard. LC mid + LP hard.

Amazon lifeisbear Jul 15, 2019

Actually I was asked LC hard that Ive never seen before. After a short difcussion I came up with O(n^3) and the interview told me to go ahead with that idea. Minutes later I found out a better solution with O(n^2logn) but the interviewer said it couldnt be better than n^3 but couldnt tell me why and couldnt prove that my idea is wrong. After further debate he asked me to go ahead with my idea. Unfortunately I couldnt finish my code due to lack of time, and I thought I totally messed up the round and failed the interview. However I got an offer after few days. Very weird.

Amazon Q.E.D. Jul 15, 2019

Was your idea correct though? Basically was it solvable in n^2logn or is n cubed the best?

Amazon lifeisbear Jul 16, 2019

Sorry I dont seem to recall what the question was at all. But I remember I was very sure that my approach was correct, and it was using heap..

Intel \(- -)/ OP Jul 15, 2019

Thanks guys! I will pass the info along.