How many times did you fail the interview process before getting an offer ? Just did an Amazon online assessment with a lc medium and lc hard questions and not all tests passed. I'm 99% sure i will be rejected. My morale is very low right now.
That's really good, now you know what to focus on.
You can’t win them all. Keep your head up. There are many better places than Amazon.
I got an Amazon onsite with 70 % tests pass on both question. Not even from US either. For context, the role was entry level. Don't feel bad if you aren't perfect
Failed hundreds of times
Gave four practice interviews at companies I wasn't really interested in. With 0-3 weeks of prep. Failed in the phone rounds in all. Didn't let that bother me. Learnt a lot. Did LC another 2-3 weeks (focusing on my weaker areas) and got offers from Amazon, Google and Microsoft. For what it's worth, in my Amazon phone screen there was one test case that failed for the LC medium question. Still got the call for onsite.
I think it depends on the quality of the interviewers at the company. It does much more than you think. Some interviewers may mislead you to think it is a different question than you think. Some interviewers have limited understanding and insist his solution is the only one that works. Some interviewers ask a trick question that can be answered easily if you know it and think that somehow tests your problem solving skill. Some companies may be ok with failing one of the online coding questions. They may ask about the question you failed and give a pass if you provide reasonable answer. So it is random. One thing I found is it is actually easier to pass if the interviewer is smart and nice (usually big tech companies). They tend to be less picky about unimportant stuff and are excellent interviewer at explaining the question and giving the right hint to make you do your best. It is ironic you have better chance of passing the interview at FANG than many other smaller companies as interviewers focus on weird things and are picky as hell. But even at FANG, there are so many weird interviewers. So you need to interview the right set of the companies and expect random failures. That’s why people do leetcode. It gives you a bullet proof to those trick questions, unnecessary hard questions and etc. of course the downside is everyone these days is equipped with it well. Coding question can’t really give any signals for many candidates therefore. Alas, engineers are the least risk taking bunch and this trend will not change. Expect to leetcode when you are in your 50s as well.
Failure is the pillar of success. Keep pushing mate.
I failed for 9 months straight, countless companies, then got Google, Goldman Sachs and a Unicorn in the tenth month.
Amazon’s online assessment has LC medium/hard questions? That doesn’t sound right.
I’m not going to give the full description but the first one was to create a typeahead search system (trie). The Second was to find the articulation points in a graph (Tarjan's algorithm). I'm a little bit upset because if I had more time I would be able to code them. It is a lot o code to code the solution for those problems.
Got the first one on site. It’s not the hardest question but you need to nail the trie, structure and algorithms to traverse Was a really nice question Did it in about 20 min on whiteboard
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