Location?

[covert pine]

Title pls

[scenic bridge]

ng sde

the email invitation said US but the meeting name was Canada so not sure

i just wanna say what i was asked to help other people cause that helped me a lot

1st interview: 2 LCs
2nd interview: 1 OOD, 2 LPs
3rd interview: all LPs

[covert pine]

Icic

Are the questions from amazon tagged?

[scenic bridge]

the LCs were very similar to tagged ones

so knowing the approach + data structures helped

[waxen herald]

do u have to run ur code for the LCs? @scenic bridge

[scenic bridge]

all interviews are given LiveCode link, its an editor but no compiler so i cant run anything

also a tip for anyone interviewing: look up ur interviewers. My first one was w an SDE, second manager, third someone outside the team (so knew it would be LPs only)

[gentle rain]

What helped you prep for the OOD? Got mine in about a week!

[unkempt fiber]

Mine (Canada, also today) was 3x60: 1 ood + LP, 1 lc + 1 ood, 1 pure LP.

[scenic bridge]

i legit googled OOD amazon and OOD interviews. Theres forums where people say the problem and sometimes solution. So i practiced writing it out and then compared it to their solutions

[gentle rain]

ah i see, thanks man I hope you get it!

[scenic bridge]

thank you

[red trout]

i had the same thing for me. did you apply for US or Canada or both?

[red trout]

did it say US in the interview email for you or did it say Canada?

[scenic bridge]

yea applied to both

[red trout]

yeah same, im not sure which one the interview is for either tbh

[scenic bridge]

i am canadian tho, so its prolly canada

[unkempt fiber]

my email didnt say location

[red trout]

yeah same, i might try to email to ask them to change to US? not sure if that would do anything though lol

[unkempt fiber]

its weird tho, some recruiter reached out to apply to a different role (new grad, Canada), I did and then the email linked to the US role which i didnt apply to

but pretty sure mine was for Canada

[scenic bridge]

if you do, lmk what happens

i also noticed two of my interviewers are US and one was Canada, don't know if they interchange for all interviews

^from their linkedin

[red trout]

oh hmm thats weird, im not too sure which one it counts as then. did you end up applying to the US or Canada one then?

[red trout]

oh weird, all of mine were American so i'm equally as confused

[unkempt fiber]

I had applied only to Canada so I'm assuming its a mistake because my interviewers were in Canada

[red trout]

i couldn't find the recruiter (who sent the interview confirmation email) on linkedin so im not sure if they're US or CAD

[red trout]

at least 2 of them were*, not sure on the last cuz i dont think i found the right linkedin for them

[red trout]

ahh okay yeah im thinking thats definitely Canadian then?

honestly still not sure if they congregate the new grad interview process together or not

[unkempt fiber]

has to be, I would need h1b sponsorship for us lol

[red trout]

are they doing h1b sponsorship? i heard some people were international

[unkempt fiber]

I also did fill out location preference form for Canada so its only the email where the linked the wrong role I'm sure

[red trout]

oh you got a location preference form? I didn't receive any form like that. when did you get this form and where in the process (like after the OA and before the final)?

[unkempt fiber]

to be honest the more I go over my inbox the more it confuses me, but I did answer a survey for location, immigration, etc

Maybe because Canada only has 2 locations

[worldly garden]

Did you guys apply to the Canada role and the email says something like: Amazon Interview Confirmation - Software Dev Engineer(US)?

[unique marlin]

dang you had 2 ood questions?

i really gotta practice ood

[red trout]

oh yeah maybe, but im confused then why i didn't get a location/immigration survey too then

[red trout]

i applied to both and got an email saying that same thing. do you know if that means US or Canada?

[scenic bridge]

yea

i applied to both

[scenic bridge]

yea i didn't get one either

[worldly garden]

I applied to U.S. after I got the interview

So I’m not sure

[unkempt fiber]

I think its random, mine says "Amazon Opportunity – INTERVIEW CONFIRMATION - <My Name>"

[scenic bridge]

also if ur canadian, you don't need visa for US. Just TN status

[worldly garden]

It might be the team since I don’t need immigration support for the U.S.

[unique marlin]

how long after your OA did you get your interview availbility survey

[worldly garden]

Almost a month

[scenic bridge]

roughly a week for me

[lunar fable]

hey, can someone tell me what is OOD and LP?

[red trout]

yeah ik but i figured if they are offering H1B, i might take it

[scenic bridge]

yea i would too

[worldly garden]

I wouldn’t mind getting an offer for the states

When did you guys finish your interviews

[red trout]

wait so you applied to Canada, got the interview (with the Software Dev Eng(US)) title, and then applied to US?

[scenic bridge]

Object Oriented Design and Leadership Principles

[red trout]

OOD is object oriented design (definitely look up Amazon OOD questions for preparing for the interview) and LP is Leadership Principles (more behavioural type questions where you tailor your answers to Amazon's LPs)

[worldly garden]

Yeah

[red trout]

just a few hours ago

[scenic bridge]

^same

[unkempt fiber]

15 days for me

[red trout]

i think that means its for Canada then, not US meaning maybe that email title of Software Dev Engineer(US) is misleading

[worldly garden]

Yeah

Or there was some internal transfer

[red trout]

does it say anything else for you after that part in the email title?

[worldly garden]

It says UCD

[red trout]

oh yeah maybe that too, honestly Amazon's hiring portal and automated emails need some work

[red trout]

yeah same for me, im not sure what that means either

[worldly garden]

I did mine Monday and the wait is killing me

[scenic bridge]

yea mine said UCD

[red trout]

i think you should have it by end of week? cuz their usual timeline is within 5 days

[scenic bridge]

googled it and it should mean "user-centred design"

[red trout]

lmao i got UC Davis

[worldly garden]

Yeah

[scenic bridge]

oh LOL

[red trout]

also checked my interview confirmation email and the recruiter is US but im not sure if that matters?

[scenic bridge]

idk its one of their teams so i figured maybe i was interviewing w that team

[unique marlin]

for the LC is it like an OA where there is instructions for code or does the interviewer just read you the problem?

[red trout]

yeah i thought that too but my interviewers were for all different teams so idk

[scenic bridge]

mine too, only "canadian" part is the meeting name and one interviewer

[red trout]

its like the OA where they provide a prompt and you code it out but you dont actually run any of the code

[scenic bridge]

they paste the problem into the editor for you

[unique marlin]

awesome awesome

[red trout]

yeah this is so weird, i wish they were a lot more clear on this stuff

[worldly garden]

what was the meeting name

[red trout]

i did send an email to the recruiter asking for clarification and said that i had a preference for US based locations so i'll let you know if i get anything back

[red trout]

the meeting name had Canada in it so thats why im confused

[worldly garden]

were you guys able to solve every leetcode. One of my roundsI had 2 and I couldn't finish the second but the interviwer said I my approach was correct

[red trout]

i was able to get through the leetcode and then the interviewer would give a follow-up for each question (like a harder modification to the same question) and I talked through how i would solve it but didn't get a chance to fully create the code for it (maybe finished like 80% of the code for both of the LC with the advanced version)

[unique marlin]

sorry if this is redundant but OOD we have to code it out right? we cant just verbally say what goes into the class/functions right

[red trout]

yeah you first talk about it (talk about which classes and functions you'll implement and also ask questions) and then you have to code it out too. but most of OOD questions are just about setting up your classes, init functions with class variables, and methods. the last part is doing the actual task but thats usually like LC easy/easy-medium level tbh

[dusk totem]

how many questions total did u get asked in the all-LP round ?

[red trout]

i think i got like 5-6?

[scenic bridge]

4 i think but lots of followup questions for each one. like we went really in depth on what exactly i did

[knotty pelican]

Are the onsite LC question easier than the OA LC questions?

[scenic bridge]

mine were, yes

but they emphasize importance of your problem-solving skills and knowing time+space complexities