!process amazon final

[dense cradle]

role?

[graceful lava]

swe new grad '24

[dense cradle]

timeline?

[graceful lava]

june 24 - application, blind apply
june 26 - OA invitation
july 1 - OA done
august 5 - interview survey -- slots filled up for my availability
august 12 - interview survey 2
august 27 - 3*60 scheduled

[dense cradle]

good luck!

[graceful lava]

thanks 🙂

[nova isle]

Woah 2 months from OA to interview 🫠

Anyways good luck!!

[graceful lava]

yeah its brutal lmao

[naive igloo]

You interviews were based on leetcode problems? Particularly medium or hard ?

[ocean wing]

how do you plan to study for the final round and do you know if they test OOD for new grad?

[red siren]

hii what location

[naive igloo]

Did you send any follow up emails to the recruiter? If you had one?

[graceful lava]

I just took a look at some yt videos, studied important design patterns and tried to solve some random questions

[graceful lava]

US

[graceful lava]

Nope, this was new grad so I don't have a particular recruiter

[graceful lava]

My interviews are tomorrow so idk yet but the OA was 1 LC easy and 1 LC med/hard

[naive igloo]

Ohh good luck then!!

[stone viper]

good luck!!!

[covert terrace]

good luck

[red siren]

do you need h1b btw?

[graceful lava]

Thanks y'all! I'll keep everyone posted

[graceful lava]

Yeah I'm international

[red siren]

ah so do you have any OPT years left?

[graceful lava]

Yeah i just graduated

[red siren]

ah cool, thanks for answering, good luck

[normal lichen]

Good Luck!

[royal totem]

Good luck

[ocean wing]

good luck! and let us know how it goes after🫡

[covert terrace]

@graceful lava howd it go

[flint zealot]

^^

[graceful lava]

Hi so I had 3 rounds, one 30m break in the middle

Round 1 - LPs and OOD (didn't have time for a lot of coding but I explained what I was going for, required some hints. Personally, I thought it was pretty hard)

Round 2 - 2 LCs, 1 medium, the other a variation on the first one but harder, still medium I would say

Round 3 - just LPs. It was a very deep dive. I believe this might've been the bar raiser

[dense cradle]

Thanks for the detailed update! I hope you get in!!

[graceful lava]

I personally think I didn't perform too well in the first one because just understanding the expectations from the OOD took me a long time.

I got the optimal solutions to the LCs with no hints so I'd say that was pretty good. The interviewer didn't have me code out the second question entirely as I just gave him an approach which would require the initial implementation with an extension to handle these extra cases and how I'd deal with them. I also coded out multiple approaches and then improved on them for certain parts of the code.

The last one focused on 3 LPs and questions and follow ups were very very detailed. Make sure to articulate your points nicely.

My advice is to stay calm throughout, plan accordingly if there's no break between the interviews and ask as many questions as you can to the interviewers as they're very helpful

[graceful lava]

Thank you, fingers crossed! :))

[normal lichen]

Good Luck!

[alpine field]

were the questions tagged?

[covert terrace]

what's the process for these usually, clarifying questions -> what we're thinking -> psuedocode -> then actual code?

[graceful lava]

The OOD was unique, wasn't on leetcode or anything like that. They related it to something in amazon shopping telling me I had to make a simplified version of it.

The LC was tagged, medium. The other question he asked, extension to that problem, wasn't on LC and was leaning towards med-hard

[graceful lava]

That's what I went with. Only thing being I didn't write down pseudo code. Started coding directly once I understood what I'm going for and have explained my approach to them beforehand.

I kept asking if my approach was what they were looking for after every important code snippet to see if they wanted a different or a better approach for something in particular

[covert terrace]

cool cool, were they string/array questions or more backtracking graphs recursion stuff

[dense cradle]

what resources did you use to prep for OOD and LLD?

[graceful lava]

String and Greedy for me

[graceful lava]

Youtube videos, asking chatgpt to give me questions to practice and also comparing my design with some feedback from it. Nothing else honestly I didn't spend enough time on it unfortunately

[covert terrace]

lolol mine is thursday im so scared

u got any other job interviews lined up?

[graceful lava]

I totally get that. I also felt the same way. Just give it your best shot! :))

[graceful lava]

Yes i do, I actually had another final loop today that I rescheduled to tomorrow but let's see.

What about you?

[covert terrace]

i have a first round w a startup but thats in 2 weeks

[quiet echo]

hi, did u have to code for OOD or just describing what parts u need + schema?

[ocean wing]

for the OOD are you supposed to say the tech stack you use or smth?

[graceful lava]

Good luck!!

[covert terrace]

isnt ood just like lru cache kinda

[quiet echo]

amazon's video showed him explaining the backend and everything and said possibly designing API

[graceful lava]

I wrote down classes and attributes and/or functions in them in plain language.

For the main function they were looking for, I wrote down some parts of the code but I couldn't complete the implementation in the given time frame

[graceful lava]

Nah, it's the Low level design so no high level stuff

The question that I was given was kinda like designing an API but for a very small and particular problem that they had provided

[covert terrace]

all this has been super helpful ty

hope u get the offer

[ocean wing]

did they go over your resume btw

[flat marsh]

thanks

[graceful lava]

YES!! the last interviewer (maybe bar raiser) didn't take my introduction. Instead, they walked through my resume with me with it open on their screen. The other two didn't.

Haven't heard any other people saying they experienced the same though

[flint zealot]

was the break after 2 rounds? also is the lc tagged problem in amazon high frequency>?

[graceful lava]

yeah but it might be because of lunch?
yes, my question was in high frequency but the follow up wasn't and was leaning hard

[agile pine]

wdym they walked through it? did they ask you to talk about each experience, or ask you specific LP questions about certain ones?

[graceful lava]

Like they just took a minute to confirm my timeline and work ex.
Then we dove into the LPs

[covert terrace]

@graceful lava how do u feel overall, do u think u did well enough to get hte offer

[graceful lava]

honestly, i feel pretty meh ://
I mean I think I nailed the 2/3 interviews but if they place a lot of importance for the other round, I don't think I'd make it. I believe it's plain luck at this point.

Either way, I'm gonna take even getting to this final interview stage as a win, no matter the outcome

[ocean wing]

for tagged are yall doing 30 days or 3 months

[covert terrace]

wanna share that list

[covert terrace]

tysm

[graceful lava]

I did 3 month (in one month, just got premium 3/4weeks ago) but like I had ~150 questions solved in the 3 month list.

Focused more on the 30 day list though and also the remaining from top 150 & blind 75

[ocean wing]

tyty

[ocean wing]

is the top 150 you mention the top150 interview questions on leetcode?