!process zon offer

[spark frost]

Timeline and location?

[lunar cipher]

how did your interviews go

[left basin]

In-person/virtual?

[foggy vigil]

OA 3/6
Interview Invite 3/11
Interview 3/20
Offer 3/25

Location is Seattle interview was virtual

[tough magnet]

What technical question did u get asked in ur ints?

[drifting grove]

how was the behavioral part? how did u incorporate the lps. also how did technical go

[foggy vigil]

Interview 1: SDE round, behavioral first, I was nervous tbh so I was kind of stuttering a lot but I practiced the LPs so I covered that really well. Technical I solved the main problem within 20-25 minutes it was building a class which contained three methods, I did most of the follow ups well but the last follow up I fumbled a bit which was explaining how to turn the code into a read heavy function instead which was basically a question about tradeoffs. I knew the idea but didn’t explain the exact steps. Q&A was quick didn’t have much time
Interview 2: SDM round, had the technical which was also building out a class, it was a vague problem like a one liner so I asked a lot of questions as I went through it and he added paragraphs as I asked the clarifying questions. These were questions like what was the format of the input and output and how we were getting in certain variables. Finished this one in probably 15 minutes, then the follow up questions were smooth, there was one that was kind of tough like a concurrency question and I didn’t get that one. Then, behavioral, incorporated all the LPs, I had practiced most of it. Then, he asked more about my projects and AI questions. I had a lot of time remaining so spent about the last twenty minutes asking tons of questions about the culture, the team and what it takes to succeed at the end. There was another guy overseeing this one who I think was higher up than the manager. I was pretty nervous during both interviews though

[drifting grove]

Was this for internship?

[foggy vigil]

I just practiced it beforehand the questions they asked were already asking about the LPs so I just had to respond w my example

[tough magnet]

Ye I’m cooked Ggwp

[foggy vigil]

Yeah internship

[drifting grove]

Example of question?

[foggy vigil]

They were both designing a class problems. Neither were LC problems I’d seen before or were in tagged. But I would say probably similar to any design problem on LC like Design Twitter or Design Circular Queue

[drifting grove]

Okok cool, sorry but I meant example of the lp questions

[tough magnet]

Other than design twitter and lru cache, what LC type design problems would you recommend practicing, I have my interview on Monday

[foggy vigil]

Tell me about a time you took responsibility for a project that wasn’t necessarily assigned to you (Ownership LP)

[lunar cipher]

What team was this

AWS?

[foggy vigil]

I would say there’s also design hit counter or design underground system could be good. Those two you mentioned and the ones I mentioned were the only ones I practiced tbh.

But I know a lot of people had completely different problems

[foggy vigil]

Yeah AWS

[drifting grove]

ive heard aws usually has harder interviews?

[lunar cipher]

How much time does it usually take to hear back

[foggy vigil]

I wouldn’t say harder but they def felt more unique than what i’ve seen before. The first interview had three methods to build out but not that bad if you thought about the whole picture. The second one where I had to ask the clarifying questions to get the full question was interesting too.

And they did ask related questions like the concurrency question

[hot path]

What was the concurrency question

[foggy vigil]

For me it was 3 business days but in the email they sent me after interview they said they’d try to get back within 5 business days

[hot path]

Just curious i don’t have interview for them

[lunar cipher]

You got an email after the interview?

[spark frost]

recruiter initials?

[foggy vigil]

It was related to the class I built for the second interview and it was basically what would you do if there were three requests all coming in at the same time to the system but the maximum allowed was two

[hot path]

Oh like more high level not specific concurrency stuff

[foggy vigil]

yeah I got it the business day after

[lunar cipher]

oh nice

[foggy vigil]

CD

[lunar cipher]

I followed up and just got aired lmao

[spark frost]

sigh

[foggy vigil]

yeah just like a small question at the end

[hot path]

Interesting

Process seems significantly harder vs last year wow

[spark frost]

i even interviewed a day before you and i have not heard back

[tough magnet]

Sounds good, most aws people are getting design qns so I think it’s a good idea I practice them, tho I’m not fully sure if my team is aws or not

[sick wadi]

have u seen amazon ppl getting design q’s?

or just aws

[tough magnet]

I’m not sure, aws ints r def looking much harder than the rest

I think my team is weblabs as both my interviewers are from that, but I’m not sure

2 design qns is def cooked tho im ngl 😭

[sick wadi]

yeah😭 im not aws so idk whther i should practice those

do yk if they were tagged?

[tough magnet]

What’s the well known hard u got?

I’m ngl, atp I’m jus praying for LC 💀

[sick wadi]

yeah same