I have Amazon interview coming up for SDE1 in a couple of weeks. I'm good at LC but very nervous as this is my first interview after college. Please give me some suggestions on the areas that I have to concentrate apart from Algorithms. I know that I have to 1. Write clean code on white paper 2. Think loud 3. Write production level code for given problem in 45 mins 4. Go through Amazon's leadership principles What else should I take care before going to interview ? Yoe : 8 months
This interview is going to be over chime, video chat. I suggest you postpone until you can get a real onsite; for a better experience. Coronavirus.
I requested the recruiter to postpone it. She told I may not hear back from them if I postpone. So no choice and I don't want to risk the opportunity
Study up on LP. All my rounds had them. Try to schedule more interviews for leverage then amazon would definitely postpone. Regardless you’ll do great, good luck.
Anyways. Repeat LC questions on recursion, dynamic programming (string based), Trie problems (all kinds of work break, ladder, concatenation etc). You gotta be flawless because remember that others are more prepared than you! But no stress. Stay calm.
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For SDE1, algo/ds will be most important. If you already know the solution to a problem then jumping directly into coding can result in rejection. Discuss the approach, thought process, pros/cons, alternate approach before u start coding. I have seen some cases when the candidate was rejected because he was too smart and coded the solution in 5 min without discussion. Prepare 1/2 realistic example for each leadership principle from your current job. For sde1, they don't stress too much on this but u don't want to get rejected for this stupid reason.
Ok sure
And adding to that - don’t make a mistake by being too honest. Amazon does not care. Just be humble. And code well. You should be fine. ^^
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@!!!!!blind how many interviews are they giving you since they made it virtual?
Don't know. Probably 4
Dude focus on behavior questions. Make your stories more heroic and provide numbers to it. For example, I challenged my manager on this architecture decision and eventually increased the productivity 3x and the code runs 4x faster.
Ok thanks for pointing out
You can coach yourself for coding or system design interviews by using this service. www.techinterviewinsights.com. You can take mock interviews too from Amazon engineers.
OP how was your interview experience? Would really appreciate it if you could share your inputs. Thanks!
I gave on 28th March for SDE1 in Bangalore. It was on chime. I totally had 4 rounds. Two rounds with sde2 and one with Quality Assurance Engineer. I was asked behavioural questions only in Qae round. I am not sure if qae was bar raiser. Technical rounds went well but hiring manager round didn’t go really well. He asked me only one coding question and I explained him approach and started writing code. I was explaining what I was writing and he was like first write the code and let’s discuss after that. So I was writing without talking and in the middle he was asking what I am doing. I didn’t understand what exactly he wanted. For technical rounds, first come up with an algorithm and validate it with interviewers testcase and a couple of your tcs. It should not be like you write the code and they give breaking tc and you go to modify it. That really wastes a lot of time. It happened in the first round. I wasted entire time on first question itself. Since it’s a virtual interview, be prepared to think loud. If you can’t do that at least tell them important observations when you notice. I still didn’t receive the result. Waiting for it. All the best
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What else should I prepare apart from algos ? Like is it important to know computer networks and operating systems ?
Concurrency Problems in LC.