Timeline?

[topaz notch]

Congratulations! , could you please share your timeline ?

[shrewd wadi]

apply with referral - 11/13
OA - 12/4
final availability form - 1/2
final - 1/28
offer - 2/3

[steady ivy]

What time did you get the email? Was by a recruiter or automated?

[shrewd wadi]

got offer from automated email, around 2:30pm EST

had a recruiter along the process tho
edit: after final scheduled

[sage finch]

what lc

[old cargo]

I gave the OA but i don't know who my recruiter is, is there a way to tell ??

[shrewd wadi]

amazon top 100 should be good

[shrewd wadi]

I only had recruiter after final was scheduled

[old cargo]

Gotcha

Congrats mate

[shrewd wadi]

thanks!

[digital horizon]

congrats! you had any OOD?

[shrewd wadi]

yes, kinda

here's my rounds

round 1 - 1 lc med & 1 lc hard (not solved perfectly)

round 2 (bar raiser) - more than 30min are behavioral qs, then 1 vague coding probably to test requirement clarification

round 3 - under 30min behavioral, 1 coding mix of OOD and LC. OOD is light, no design pattern needed

[digital horizon]

thanks! congrats again!

[shrewd wadi]

thanks!

[old cargo]

can you give some resources to prep for Behavioral, i am struggling with that 🙂

[proud garnet]

congrats! for the
'1 vague coding probably to test requirement clarification' do you mind share a little bit more bout this?

[ruby vigil]

Amazon top 100 filtered by the last 30 days or 3 months?

[shrewd wadi]

this list of questions is comprehensive: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/437082/amazon-behavioral-questions-or-leadership-principles-or-lp
I also used hellointerview to do mock for LPs

[shrewd wadi]

it's like, "given two location, find the best path between them" kind of question, I believe you have to ask what is "best" here, how input is represented, etc.

[shrewd wadi]

30 days, 2 questions I got are on top 20 of 30 days

[proud garnet]

like a Dijkstra n ask some detailed clarification q before implement the solution? smth like that?

[shrewd wadi]

it depends, algorithm/solution should come after you got some idea of the problem

I did not even implement, just explain approach and how algorithm works

[proud garnet]

gotcha sounds like they want us to ask clarification qs , shock they start have code question during br round now

[shrewd wadi]

it was bar raiser round, so they might be interested how you go around with ambiguity

[proud garnet]

thanks, congrats again

yea i assume, thought br round would just be full LPs

[shrewd wadi]

yep, I thought so as well LOL

a bit shock when interviewer mentioned there is some coding

[proud garnet]

yea zon always kinda random on each round, im gonna prepping that thanks

[shrewd wadi]

np

[north bay]

what do they expect in OOD? Just requirements clarification and code or we need to draw UML and use case diagrams and stuff too? Also, can you suggest some resources to practice OOD?

[shrewd wadi]

just requirements clarification and code

you can take a look at this: https://github.com/ashishps1/awesome-low-level-design

but the interview was a lot easier

[north bay]

oh alright, thanks so much! Also, can you just tell what were the lc questions? And for prepping, is amazon last 30 days tagged enough?

[slim thistle]

.

[shrewd wadi]

amazon last 30 days should be enough

[north bay]

okay, thank you so much!

[north bay]

hey bro, how did you prepare for behavioral interview? Like did you use scenarios from your college projects and learnings? asking because i dont have much internship or job experience

[shrewd wadi]

I used stories mostly from my past internships tho

[shrewd wadi]

you can use group projects, anything with lots of interactions

[north bay]

Oh alright! Can we use our personal learnings or something like that, eg “Explain one interesting thing you’ve learned recently”; i’m planning to mention about a course and its labs i implemented

[shrewd wadi]

yeah that sounds good, can be better if you mention something you learn by your own

[thick coral]

was your bar raiser a manager?

had two interviews, one with an sde 2 and a manager so not sure what to expect for my rescheduled third

[shrewd wadi]

Principal engineer

[shrewd wadi]

The manager might be a bar raiser, just come prepared

[thick coral]

anything outside of amazon top 150 to prep for?

[shrewd wadi]

prep for less frequent questions if you have time. Also there are some chances they ask OOD