!process Amazon offer

[bleak lion]

This was for the 2025 new grad role in Canada (Fungible SDEI FT)

Nov 15th, 2024 - Applied
Dec 10th, 2024 - Received OA
Dec 15th, 2024 - Completed OA
Dec 20th, 2024 - Invite to Interview
Jan 7th, 2025 - Interview Loop (Round 1 & 2; 3rd had to be rescheduled)
Jan 14th, 2025 - Third round
Jan 23rd, 2025 - Offer

[static edge]

How was interview loop?

[bleak lion]

Round 1 - 2 LPs + OOD (File search API; can be found on Leetcode)
Round 2 - 2 LPs + LC med? (standard "can you reach the end?" maze question)
Round 3 - variation of Number of Islands

I wasn't prepped for the OOD so I didn't do much OODing. Got too focused in solving the problem instead. Must of made it up in the LPs cuz I thought I bombed that.

2nd round technical was fine, tripped up a bit on one LP.

aced the 3rd round and ended the interview 20 mins early

[calm pasture]

start date, loc?

[wet gazelle]

tc?

[slow latch]

what was the lp u tripped up on?

[bleak lion]

June, Toronto office

[bleak lion]

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer/levels/sde-i/locations/canada this is pretty accurate

[bleak lion]

"Tell me about a time you received criticism and what did you learn from it?" The part that tripped me up wasn't the question but the follow up when the interviewer asked me to quantify the results. Couldn't think of any metrics for the example I gave

[radiant compass]

is there anything u would say to focus on

or prioritize

when prepping

[hollow ivy]

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[bleak lion]

I did the tagged amazon past 30 days on leetcode and practiced LPs by writing stories in star format in a google doc and asked gpt to refine them

each story could be used for 2-3 LPs and i'd say took ~5 mins each

include as much detail/metrics as you can

you can only do so much with technical since it's rng. But if you have solid LPs then I'd say you have a good chance even if one technical doesn't go too well

[static edge]

LP harder than the technical lol

wtf is the point of the LPs

[merry warren]

bc amazon prides itself on its leadership principles

this is something the leadership really cares about

also, check out Working Backwards

also LPs are a way for zon to figure out who really understands amazon

[north rapids]

what was the job id

[bleak lion]

2828255

[north rapids]

i think ur the first canada ng i've seen lately

idk why canada moves so slow or they been interviewing people that i just dont know

imma keep praying

[bleak lion]

i think there was maybe 1 other 2025 ng canadian, but yeah very slow. The other possibility is a lot of the 2024 interns accepted ROs so they don't need to fill as much hc in canada

[acoustic cloak]

is this the "can u reach end" problem https://leetcode.com/problems/the-maze/description/ ?

[bleak lion]

My premium sub ended so can't see it. but it was a simple maze where you could only move 1 cell at a time

[acoustic cloak]

do u remeber the name? i hve premium

basically trying to see from start if there is a continuous path to destination right?

[bleak lion]

yeah that's the idea. I don't remember a name, but I think the question was modified to be a truck trying to reach its destination

[rose dome]

congrats! Got pretty similar tl till they never reschedule my last round of loop 💀 do u have specific recruiter ?

[vivid glacier]

Hey did you portal change to no longer after consideration just after you got the OA for this role?

[bleak lion]

No specific recruiter

[bleak lion]

it did change to no longer under consideration, but I don’t know if it was after OA

[vivid glacier]

And it remained like that while you were waiting for your interview right?

[bleak lion]

Never checked after that but I would assume so

Only checked once

[rose dome]

Thx congrats

[hot swan]

Do you have to run the code or dry run?

[bleak lion]

dry run, you can't actually run the code

[night frigate]

I thought it was 3 rounds in one day, but seems you did in two. Do you know if we can s3lect in interview availibility to do one round per day?

I have a ft job already and dont wanna do pto

[bleak lion]

it was supposed to be one day, the interviewer had a conflict which was why it was rescheduled

and no I think they try to do all rounds in a day

you only have the option to choose what dates

[night frigate]

Ah man

Thanks

[serene jay]

which lps to focus on for sde1?

[merry warren]

good ones include dive deep, learn and be curious, customer obsession

and bias for action

if u have stories for those at least its a great start. also read this article

https://www.scarletink.com/p/interviewing-at-amazon-leadership-principles

@serene jay

[serene jay]

thank you

[arctic fiber]

@bleak lion , can you please explain bit more about variation of Number of Islands?

what type of variation?

[bleak lion]

It was simple, instead of computing the number of islands the question asked for the islands themselves. You decide how to return it. I decided on a list of list of tuples