Amazon Process

[naive grove]

i dont wanna do my wells fargo interview tmo morning

reee

[broken ocean]

i did the practice oa using hackerrank and i thought the questions were alright how does that compare to the actual oa?

[green prawn]

congrats @clear ember !!

[random snow]

Doesn't compare... It's just to get you familiar with the interface

[clear ember]

thanks!!

[torpid prawn]

Me waiting for 9 pm

[frigid juniper]

how much time did it take between completing the second OA and getting the final interview

does*

[torpid prawn]

Took me 14 days on the dot to get a scheduling email

[frigid juniper]

damn

who should I email to ask to expedite it cuz I got another offer than expires in 3 weeks

[torpid prawn]

I think the emails you receive have a reply address on them to ask any questions

[frigid juniper]

awesome thanks

Are the seattle positions filled already?

[torpid prawn]

Not sure tbh

[wanton quiver]

doubt it

[naive grove]

yo these fuckers at amazon

they gonna leave me on a string or wassup

[clear ember]

2 weeks exactly as well

[frigid juniper]

fuckk

[celest patrol]

@clear ember HUGE

congrats

@naive grove took mine thursday and still under review :/

[naive grove]

bezos being a really cheeky fuck rn

[hoary iron]

He's on his yacht ffs

No time for intern apps I guess

[naive grove]

I GOT PORTAL UPDATE

[celest patrol]

I DID NOT

CONGRATS THO!

[naive grove]

LETS GOOO

[celest patrol]

guess im playing the waiting game while all the Fridays are getting their news

watch me get rejected too 😭

[torpid prawn]

you get location changed??

[wanton quiver]

grats!!!

[naive grove]

mine is kind of weird tho

[celest patrol]

dm me screenshot

[torpid prawn]

what does it say

[celest patrol]

also when did it update tf? not even 9 yet

[wanton quiver]

i think they just update randomly lol

[naive grove]

it just disappeared lol wtf

they trying to blue balls me

[wanton quiver]

i think that happened to peeps who got offers tho

[naive grove]

oh fr?

[wanton quiver]

happened recently

yeah is it back to under review

[naive grove]

yea the extra box just disappeared

[wanton quiver]

think ur chillin

[naive grove]

went from this

to

and then back to

lol

[random snow]

is in past applications?

[naive grove]

nah i dont have a past applicaiton tab

[random snow]

Weeiiirddd

[naive grove]

@teal osprey @naive wharf thoughts ?

[wanton quiver]

yeah people were saying it disappeared

and then reappeared later with offer

[naive grove]

god i hope so

getting blue ballsed would be super bad

[wanton quiver]

that would be the worst blue ball scenario lol

[naive grove]

is this from a thread or something

or discord

not that i dont trust you would like to see it for myself

[wanton quiver]

it was on reddit

[naive grove]

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/jzw2ta/amazon_sde_intern_portal_change/gded0oc/

found someone with similar scenario

[naive wharf]

what's up?

usually a good sign - hang in there for a bit

mine changed as well but the other one didn't disappear for me

[naive grove]

[torpid prawn]

so if we're past the 48 hr mark is that generally a good sign?

not saying that its a guaranteed offer but just trying to ease my anticipation

[celest patrol]

wondering the same thing, do people also get rejected after 4-5 days?

[naive grove]

@steep lion thoughts? seems like you gots had something similar happen for you guys like it did for me

[naive grove]

no clue tbh.

but from what i've heard rejects are faster.

[wanton quiver]

ur not safe if ur past 2 days

ppl get rejected after 5 business too

[naive grove]

dear god

brutal

[torpid prawn]

oof thats rough

[teal osprey]

Ohhh hmmm I've heard this happening but I have no clue, maybe it just means that you'll get offer but for APP? APP is basically SWE but for Freshman/Sophomore

Are you freshman sophomore?

[naive grove]

im a sophomore

[teal osprey]

But congrats!

[naive grove]

wait

is it legit lol

[teal osprey]

No clue

[naive grove]

like no blue balls

[teal osprey]

Euuhhhh

[naive grove]

bezos cant do me dirty

[teal osprey]

Honestly I'd wait

No clue what that means

[naive grove]

yeah. i think it's regular SDE tbh, APP hasnt responded to me lol. it's still application submitted for them since november. if you look at the image, i got a new application submitted for SDE Intern in Seattle and then that disappears (the APP and the other thing stays the same)

but who knows

guess we'll see?

[teal osprey]

I've heard some people getting "downleveled" and skipping to final round of APP

But idk

[naive grove]

yea i heard of that

when they get rejected

get moved to final for APP

[celest patrol]

heres to hoping we find out tmr 🙏

[naive grove]

[viscid forge]

for people that have done the first OA with amazon, what sort of resources are they cool with you using during the assessment

like obv you cant boot up leetcode but could i like search stuff on google or no

[torpid prawn]

ive heard that you're only allowed to look at official documentation for the language youre using

they keep track of browser tab activity

[naive grove]

it reappeared

lol wtf

[celest patrol]

Sameee

Does that mean I’m good?

Or is reject still possible

[naive grove]

oh sick dude

we have the same job id

for the new one

i guess we wait

but looks good

for us

8:46pm for u holy shit lol

[celest patrol]

When’s urs

[naive grove]

5:45PM

thats when i messaged u i think

[celest patrol]

I checked yesterday and it def wasn’t up

[naive grove]

lol

at 8:46?

[celest patrol]

Wasn’t up an hour ago either

[naive grove]

yeah super strange

[celest patrol]

Yeah i never saw this box till now

[naive grove]

prayge

[celest patrol]

I wonder if we can still get rejected

[naive grove]

[celest patrol]

Maybe this means nothing

Or system changed up

[naive grove]

BRO

RELOAD

MOVED TO ANOTHER JOB

@celest patrol

[celest patrol]

Like this!?!?!?

[naive grove]

WE IN IT

BEZOS

CONQUERED

[lime bloom]

yo!?!? Yall are in!?!?!

Congrats!!!!

[torpid prawn]

Portal update boys!! Also got virtual location Washington!

Stoked af

[naive grove]

DUBS FOR EVERYONE

LETS GO

[torpid prawn]

YESSIR

[naive grove]

WE'RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT BABY

[celest patrol]

are we sure

matt did u smash ur final

[torpid prawn]

I did pretty well but didn’t smash it, messed up a time complexity when he asked me ab inserting into a priority queue lol but other than that I got the solutions I think

[celest patrol]

honestly were prob good then

as long as they didnt update their system

[naive grove]

WE ALL GONNA MAKE I T

[celest patrol]

DONT HYPE ME UP YET

[naive grove]

DONT MATTER

WE ALL GONNA MAKE IT

[torpid prawn]

Mine says “virtual location, Washington” that doesn’t mean remote right?

Cause all internships are on site I thought

[celest patrol]

That’s what everyone gets for now

[torpid prawn]

Wait nvm I see the actual job title says greater Seattle area

[celest patrol]

When do the emails come out usually? After portal update

[torpid prawn]

should be within 24 hrs

[teal osprey]

Congrats everyone!!

[teal osprey]

24hours

[celest patrol]

Damn so we might not get it tonight yet

[torpid prawn]

My portal says it updated 2/2 tho so we’ll prob get the email tonight

[random snow]

I'm so proud you guys

💕💕💕💕

[random snow]

How long after submitting the interview survey did you receive confirmation?

[celest patrol]

I got it like exsctly 48 hours before final, and it was my first selection. Sucked

[naive grove]

pick the morning dates if u want the farthest out

no one wanted 9am appointment 😂

on fri

[torpid prawn]

Same

Monday morning

[lime bloom]

Now that my interview is tomorrow, I'm just coming to terms with the idea that I should've been studying all this stuff so much sooner LOL, there's so much I don't know

Oh well at least now I'll continue studying even after this interview

[broken ocean]

How long after OA do people hear about OA2

[random snow]

I emailed the recruiter directly to pick the latest day possible LOL fingers crossed

[random snow]

What do you mean? Did you finish oa2?

[broken ocean]

No I still need to take OA1

But on the email it said there should be a follow up before 24 hours after taking

[naive grove]

I got the email

for offer

[lime bloom]

Congrats again!!!! Great job!

[random snow]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ❤️

Well done dude

pls send tips 😂

[random snow]

you get OA2 like a few minutes after OA1

as long as you pass around half the test cases you're good

[broken ocean]

ok

does the oa require webcam streaming

[random snow]

not amazon

just a selfie with ID in the begninng

[broken ocean]

kk

because i saw in the email yeah it asked for an ss

and also they say ur allowed to lookup documentation and such

like javadocs for java

[random snow]

ya on hackerrank you can right click and click search or something? I never tried it

[broken ocean]

is amazon on hackerrank

[celest patrol]

Let’s go baby

[sterile geode]

i believe they take pics randomly during the test to make sure they're interviewing the same person

[broken ocean]

lolwut

[sterile geode]

at least that's what it said on my email

[teal osprey]

Congrats 🎉

[random snow]

Finally got my interview scheduled

This Wednesday

😓😓😓😓

[lime bloom]

glgl!

I have mine in uhhh

40 minutes

LOL

[random snow]

GOODLUCK @lime bloom

💕💕💕

[lime bloom]

❤️ tyty

[random snow]

Anyone going to Amazon Vancouver comfortable sharing their TC?

[hot steeple]

what's TC

[random snow]

Total compensation

[frigid juniper]

Have my final round amazon interview

in three days

Just leetcode and leadership principles right?

[random snow]

Yep

Im in 3 days too 🙏🏼

[naive wharf]

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engineer/SDE-I/Canada/

[random snow]

That's new grad right? I'm asking about intern

[naive wharf]

oh yeah it's new grad

[naive grove]

@random snow

[random snow]

If that's that's accurate... Then wow 🥲🥲

[strong pumice]

Has anyone who gave their final interview last Thurs/Fri heard back?

[lime bloom]

Had it friday and nope

[strong pumice]

how did yours go?

[viscid holly]

i had it thursday just got the portal change today

[lime bloom]

Mine says application submitted now

Or well, I have two entries now

Idk if thats good or what

Think berkeley had the same? @naive grove or nah

[random snow]

Did you guys fully solve the technical?

[lime bloom]

I think I did but since there was no actual running of the code perhaps I messed up syntax somewhere

But in terms of just theoretical idea yeah

[celest patrol]

Then as long as ur behavioral was good you’ll get offer

[frigid juniper]

How is team matching done

Interviewer told me I basically got the offer lol

How long till that I get the official ting

[forest inlet]

portal change either Wednesday or Monday, and then offer letter day after that. congrats

[naive grove]

How many days after the final interviews did you guys get a portal change / offer?

I'm refreshing the whole time

Or do you get an email after portal change?

[random snow]

@frigid juniper how'd it go??

[naive grove]

yeah i had this

i had an extra box that said application submitted for greater seattle area (diff job id as well)

i interviewed friday morning, received portal change on wednesday evening, and then moved to another job on thursday morning around 10ish, and then offer letter 2-3ish same day .

[lime bloom]

Yeah I got the offer email a couple of hours ago

Miraculously

[frigid juniper]

really well

they asked me coin change so I got lucky

[naive grove]

good shit

congrats

[random snow]

Let's GOOOOOOOOO

Pray I get lucky too

I'm surprised you got coin change tbh

That problem is kinda hard if you've never seen it

[sterile geode]

yeah so they do ask dp questions...?

[teal osprey]

I don't think they ask hard. Usually easy/medium

So yeah for dp easy/medium

Just do blind75

[sterile geode]

my interviews tomorrow

[lime bloom]

Tyty

[teal osprey]

You're fine, just make sure you communicate well

[clear ember]

has anyone ever been able to ask to transfer from toronto to san fran? 👀

would that be even possible

[forest inlet]

not possible

theyre rlly strict with being in toronto or vancouver for canadians

[clear ember]

ahhh okok good to know tyty

[hot steeple]

if the interviewer says you'll hear soon, is that a good or bad thing?

[random snow]

Sounds good to me 🤠

I choked on finding optimal but crushed behavioral.... I don't know what to think

Interviewer didn't seem impressed

gg I think 😢

[sterile geode]

chin up and keep grinding y'all

[broken ocean]

hey just finished OA2

whats the turnaround time to see if i get rejected or moved on

[random snow]

I got interview invite after a week

[broken ocean]

What did u score on OA1

I did mediocre on OA1 and I think pretty well on OA2

@random snow

[random snow]

Ya same I got around 50% on OA1

Don't have a score for OA2 but I think I did well

You should be good 👍🏼

[broken ocean]

I did worse than that on OA1 😵‍💫

oh well I can only hope

[random snow]

As long as you get the next stage you're good

Don't worry about it

[broken ocean]

Ok

[random snow]

Keep going 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[broken ocean]

I did OA2 just a little while ago

[random snow]

Give it like a week

[broken ocean]

I’m pretty sure all my answers were what they were supposed to be

[random snow]

You'll get interview

[broken ocean]

I hope

[random snow]

But watch out

[broken ocean]

amazon would be yuge

[random snow]

Interview will be short notice

So grind Blind 75

[broken ocean]

mmm I’ve done maybe 3 or 4 of blind75

[random snow]

Yeah just do as much as you can

[broken ocean]

Do you recommend watching videos of solutions or what

[random snow]

Hmmmm.... Try it for 15 mins, then watch solution, then code it from scratch yourself

https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/best-practice-questions/

[broken ocean]

Ok

[random snow]

This is a more efficient list

50 instead of 75

from the same author

[frigid juniper]

Damn its been 3 business days and I haven't heard back 😦

[random snow]

Given how everyone says rejection is first two days... I'd take that as a good sign?

@frigid juniper

[paper gorge]

i took my final on last tuesday evening

fuck

so much ANXIETY!

[broken ocean]

I took OA2 on Friday

[paper gorge]

time to binge eat girl scout shortbread cookies

[broken ocean]

@paper gorge how long after OA2 did u get final

[paper gorge]

ill check for u

i forgot

[broken ocean]

Oke

[paper gorge]

I got the confirmation email on Sunday 1/23 at 9pm that I finished my OAs
got my final interview request on Saturday 1/29 at 4am

[broken ocean]

Gotcha

[paper gorge]

the timing is really wishy washy at amazon apparently

nobody knows the formula

[broken ocean]

Lol I waited 5 months for OA1

[paper gorge]

or at least idk anybody who does

[broken ocean]

Actually near 6

I kinda took an L on OA1 but in theory should’ve done well on OA2 but idk how they weight this

[paper gorge]

when i applied as a sophomore with no prior internship experience, i never even got an OA

i was rejected in late-march 2021 when the portal closed

[broken ocean]

I am sophomore with previous internship

Damn

How was final lc?

[paper gorge]

I got a tree problem

I kinda fumbled around like an idiot at first

trying to solve it

but I was able to run through an example, epxlain my solution, and answer follow-ups

my solution is still kinda messy but at least its the right way to do it

[broken ocean]

I see

[paper gorge]

Idk

i dont feel good or bad about my final

it could go either way and i wouldnt be surprised

[broken ocean]

Im honesty just hoping I get the final at this point

I didn’t do well on OA1 I know that much

[paper gorge]

OA2 matters a lot

I think the formula is that if youre good enough at OA1, you pass that part

[broken ocean]

OA2 as in workplace simulator?

[paper gorge]

yeah

[broken ocean]

ok

[paper gorge]

Leadership principles bro

[broken ocean]

Well

Let me dm

[paper gorge]

Pray for our supreme leader Deadlines and our lord and savior Customers

[random snow]

How did it go?

Technical vs behavioural?

[paper gorge]

i had both parts

the interviewer started off with the behavioral

i came up with answers i guess, idk how good my answers were

the technical part, i think i did fine on, although there may have been flaws with my thought process and etc

idk

[random snow]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Hope you get it

[paper gorge]

thanks fam

[broken ocean]

guys

@paper gorge

my portal updated to under review

i took oa2

[paper gorge]

Pogging

gl fam

[broken ocean]

does this mean im not out

:s

[paper gorge]

idk but that might be good

[random snow]

Idk if there's portal update after OA... It's always under review?

But rejections come quick usually after OA... So you might be good 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Keep grinding LC

[broken ocean]

Mine was on application submitted after I got OA1

Like it went under review -> got OA1 -> took OA1 -> back to application submitted

[random snow]

Oh interesting

Nice nice 🤣👌🏼

[broken ocean]

I also took OA2 on Friday

[sterile geode]

Yeah it is i believe

[broken ocean]

So idk if it means anything

[sterile geode]

It should be under review after oa2 i think

[broken ocean]

That’s not how mine went lol

Ye

[random snow]

Hey guys I went from Under Review to Application Submitted what does that mean?

Old one is "moved to another job"

[frigid juniper]

Damn I still didnt get an update

F

[teal osprey]

You'll be fine maybe on Wednesday

[teal osprey]

Congrats! Means you got the job

Tomorrow you'll get an email

[sterile geode]

[paper gorge]

When was your final again?

Hoping for the best for u fam

I stalked chat history, interesting

You took yours a day after I took mine

[sterile geode]

it was last wednesday

yep

[paper gorge]

Yike

Bruh I can't focus on homework

With this on my mind

I can't stop thinking about it

Fuck

FUCK

this is college apps 2.0

Deadass

[sterile geode]

lol

[random snow]

Last Wednesday

[paper gorge]

Yeah I saw

[random snow]

Dude I've had hw and midterms all week

Im barely squeezing by

Its torture

[paper gorge]

Same bro

This is so tough

[teal osprey]

This thread needs to be a channel by itself

[random snow]

LOL facts

[paper gorge]

Yo Patrick I like the pfp

It's very cheerful

[frigid juniper]

Has anyone got rejected after 4 business days

Thought I killed the interview

[random snow]

Most rejections are 1-2 days from what I've seen so far

So hang in there

[paper gorge]

Did you get a status update?

1-2 days is for clear cut rejects

So you're still in the running

[frigid juniper]

Naw my portal just says under review

[random snow]

I think you'll get it tomorrow

[paper gorge]

when are rejections traditionally sent out?

[random snow]

you said it yourself mane

[paper gorge]

no i mean like

what time of he day

morning?

or evening

[random snow]

I've seen on reddit that most portal updates are by 6pm pacific? not sure I trust that too much

[paper gorge]

Big day today?

Fuck

I'm ready for the L tbh

I won't be sad if that's what it comes to

[paper gorge]

did anyone get a portal change yesterday?

how long is the wait for amazon?

i took my interview tuesday night

if no portal change, does that mean im rejected?

[paper gorge]

There is no way im getting in at this point

[paper gorge]

shit, its the start of business day 5

im probably a reject by this point

[paper gorge]

I think on-the-fence rejects take the longest to return

I think I'm an on-the-fence reject

which is fine

[frigid juniper]

idk a lot of ppl havent got their decision

I think they’re just slow rn

[lilac citrus]

i havent gotten mine either

this is hella stressful, did my interview on the 8th

[frigid juniper]

bruh can they rip the bandaid already

this is torture

[frigid juniper]

Recruiter just emailed me back

said there are a high volume of candidates right now and they are experiencing delays

[random snow]

people on reddit complaining about delays too

its brutal rn

[frigid juniper]

Just got the offer

Its for the DC metro area tho

Anyone know how to change it

[paper gorge]

same

Yo

Whats up zac

zav

WHATS UP BRO

@frigid juniper POGGING BRO

IM JUST SO HAPPY TO GET AN OFFER AT ALL

[frigid juniper]

yeahhh

[paper gorge]

Good job bro

[frigid juniper]

where is ur location

congrats to you too

[paper gorge]

DC too lol

youre considering switching out of DC?

im not sure if i want to bother doing that

but i am considering doing that too

[frigid juniper]

yeah, is DC a fun place

my friends from virginia say its boring

[paper gorge]

I heard from another friend who got the offer that DC is virtual

Idk if there's even any travel involved

Idk

Seems like everyone who got results today got DC

Quite peculiar but I'm not mad or anything

[frigid juniper]

oof

i hate virtual internships

[broken ocean]

ok so second business day after taking OA2 and being under review (i took it friday) and havent gotten rejected yet

[paper gorge]

Second business day is normal

Took me a week or so

[broken ocean]

i havent gotten rejected yet

[paper gorge]

Yeah if I learned anything from my experience

Don't read too deeply into any sort of formula

You're in the running as long as the portal says you are

Don't over think it if your portal doesn't update in advance

[frigid juniper]

whats the amazon discord channel

[sterile geode]

https://discord.gg/7k6g2sgbyu

[broken ocean]

im not dead yet

<

[random snow]

🙏🏼

[naive grove]

when did u interview

[random snow]

last wednesday

[clear ember]

[broken ocean]

[broken ocean]

I finished OA2 last Friday so if it takes longer than tmrw idk what to expect lol

Idk if they take a while to reject or what

[paper gorge]

Whenever they respond to OA2 is really weird

The time frames just make zero sense

There's a structure around when they respond to decisions after final interviews, but there is no structure to whether or not you get an interview at all

[broken ocean]

Gotcha

[naive grove]

[paper gorge]

idk when decisions come out for whether or not someone is getting into the final round/offer, but best of luck anyone whos waiting

ive been there, i know its a painful wait

[broken ocean]

YOO

[tough cypress]

[naive grove]

even more for all my fellow bretherin

[paper gorge]

[random snow]

✨💕

[cursive tide]

I think I'm gonna take OA1 this weekend

I haven't done any practice today like i wanted to because im behind in my classes and i got a big assignment due tomorrow I hope i'll still do okay tho

[random snow]

Get over 50% and you'll get OA2 hopefully

[cursive tide]

wdym

only half the test cases?

😂

[random snow]

Yep

[cursive tide]

Please lord don't ask me a graph, dfs/bfs, or greedy algo question

anything else i think i can do

[random snow]

✨✨✨🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[cursive tide]

my deadline is wednesday

i think im gonna do it tomorrow tho

[random snow]

Good luck fam

[broken ocean]

i didnt even get over 50%

[random snow]

LOL me neither

[broken ocean]

and oa2 is automatic

[random snow]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[broken ocean]

bro i got 11/30 test cases o_O

[random snow]

Nah OA2 is not automatic

[broken ocean]

for intern?

[random snow]

Yee

[broken ocean]

hmm ok i couldve sworn it was

[random snow]

Some got rejected after OA1

[broken ocean]

also valorant :JUST:

u should come watch me play csgo

i can be in the vc

[random snow]

LOL CS is dusted dude

[cursive tide]

OA1 has 2 parts

[random snow]

Time to switch

[broken ocean]

@random snow vc

[random snow]

I'm eating maybe another time

[broken ocean]

bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

im just streaming bro

procrastinating for this test i have to take by monday night

fucking comparch 2

[paper gorge]

Gl bro

50% is enough to move on

[cursive tide]

At this point, idk if its even worth doing my class hw

[paper gorge]

Fuck homewoek

6 figure salary or good grades

Too ez

[cursive tide]

im so behind that its gonna take me a whole day to do it

all of tmrw

[broken ocean]

join vc @paper gorge

[paper gorge]

O

What's going on?

[broken ocean]

im streaming cs

[paper gorge]

J got homework rn but aite sure

[broken ocean]

pog

[paper gorge]

I'm dying from this fucking computer networks homework

[broken ocean]

LOL

im in systems and networks and rn we are talking about pipelining

[cursive tide]

I'm doing my AI homework rn and this is actual pain

[paper gorge]

school is ass

i swear to god

school is hell

[broken ocean]

f

[paper gorge]

sorry bro

i cant stay

[broken ocean]

@paper gorge

[mighty juniper]

Ppl who take ai are good at searching

[cursive tide]

I’m not good at searching

I’m not good at AI

[broken ocean]

this is why i am choosing hte cybersec route

[snow lava]

does anyone have an upcoming interview & want a study buddy? this is for sde intern btw

[cursive tide]

I'm still on the OA1 :( haven't done it yet

[broken ocean]

perhaps

[teal osprey]

If you wanna grind LC, me and a few others are often in the #698366411864670255 voice channel

[onyx rampart]

😭

[urban stump]

Did anyone interview last week?

I was wondering when can I expect portal change

[tough cypress]

It’s normally in 2-5 business days

They’re supposed to let you know within 5 days, but they’ve been really backed up recently

[urban stump]

Oh ok thanks!

[paper gorge]

Yeah don't worry if it takes over 5 days

Amazon is probably really busy

Btw: NOTHING other than an outright rejection is a sign of rejection

[urban stump]

Ya I heard they give out rejections earlier

As compared to offers

[cursive tide]

So after doing the OA coding part is there also a LP part

or is that OA2

[urban stump]

Yep that is OA2

[broken ocean]

Fuck me i have my interview in two days

What are last min tips

[paper gorge]

LPs

Get good at demonstrating your thought process

You get significant brownie points for being able to demonstrate a competent thought process that lines up with the optimal solution, even if you can't finish your solution

[broken ocean]

im fucked for technical ngl

what exactly do u mean by LPs? Like how to apply them to previous experience/that stuff?

@paper gorge

[paper gorge]

Yes

[broken ocean]

Alright

Man I’m stressing

I’m not ready for the technical portion

[broken ocean]

Some LPs i don’t understand how to apply

[paper gorge]

thats what you gotta figure out my dood

[cursive tide]

After OA2 is it just final -> offer

or are there multiple interviews

[broken ocean]

Mine is just one final

[paper gorge]

yes

[cursive tide]

@open lichen ^^^

[paper gorge]

you have a very long and tedious final round for full time if your OAs arent perfect

but as intern, no matter what your final will be 45 mins

[broken ocean]

I’m so not ready for this interview

[cursive tide]

You're ready!! You can do it dude

[broken ocean]

For the technical portion am I allowed to reference documentation

[cursive tide]

Try recording yourself and timing yourself doing a leetcode problem

preferably a medium

[broken ocean]

i have quite a struggle doing mediums

[cursive tide]

How many questions did they make you write @paper gorge

[paper gorge]

one

[cursive tide]

and are they lc med or lc med-hard

[paper gorge]

i had a lc easy-med

[cursive tide]

holy

[paper gorge]

i had a Binary search tree problem

[cursive tide]

easy!

kth smallest in a bst

[paper gorge]

yes

how did u know

[cursive tide]

wait actually

that was a random guess LMFAO

[paper gorge]

💀

yeah that problem is a solid easy-med

[cursive tide]

mhm

can you cheese it

just o(n) in order traversal into an array and grab index k

[paper gorge]

cheese?

yeah, in order traversal is the whole concept

thats actually what they want

[cursive tide]

that's so easy then

😩

pog

[paper gorge]

my friend interviewed on the same day and it seems like his interviewer gave a curveball because he said "guess whos not getting into amazon"

and he still got in?

the idea: shit can just be totally arbitrary

you never know what happens

[cursive tide]

my lc solution to k-th smallest in bst beats 100%

i actually optimized it a bit so that its more like o(k)

bc i have an early exit for when we hit the kth thing

[paper gorge]

yeah same

thats the point too

[broken ocean]

I’d struggle doing that problem ngl lol

[cursive tide]

for tree problems just remember this:

pre order: root first
// do stuff
recurse(root.left)
recurse(root.right)

in order: anything to do with sorted bst
recurse(root.left)
// do stuff
recurse(root.right)

post order: leftmost first
recurse(root.left)
recurse(root.right)
// do stuff

so for that problem, you wanna have some kidna array/arraylist with a sorted list extracted from the bst, so bc it has to do with sorted, we use inorder traversal

recurse(root.left)
arrayList.add(root.val)
recurse(root.right)

[broken ocean]

Ye

[cursive tide]

Honestly LC problems are very prone to patterns

[broken ocean]

But also DFS and BFS use stack/queue

[cursive tide]

you'll notice a lot of them

dfs/bfs is my weakest subject

im gonna cry if they ask me one of those with a graph

[broken ocean]

I more or less memorized those algos

Bro if I get a graph problem I will cry

Those are def my weakest

[cursive tide]

we did bfs/dfs in my dsa 2 class but ngl i didn't pay that much attention

[paper gorge]

Graph problems rarely involve pathfinding

It's usually dfs and bfs

[cursive tide]

oh also i actually suck at dp from scratch. creating dp from recursive solution i can do it

[paper gorge]

Dp is weird

It's hard to get right often

[broken ocean]

I’ve been doing dp in my algos class the last 2 weeks

[cursive tide]

my school taught dp as the iterative bottom-up approach

[broken ocean]

I’m still lost

[cursive tide]

so we had recursion -> memoization -> dp

[broken ocean]

We do the whole define table entries, define recurrence, then write algo

[cursive tide]

i dont like the dp table thing ngl

i feel like its just more confusing

[broken ocean]

It helps me kinda

[cursive tide]

i notice that a lot of dp problems involve some kind of choice or optimization

i love the house robber problem for example

[broken ocean]

True

You just have to know

Like it’s so hard to come up with the optimization on the spot

[cursive tide]

house robber is my favorite example of dp

Because

The binary choice of it is so clear, and the recursive solution is like 3 lines

You either take this house, then jump 2 houses, or don't take this house, and go to the adjacent one

clear O(2^n)

[sterile geode]

you better know dfs and bfs lol

amazon likes asking tree/graph questions

[cursive tide]

I can do post pre and in order tree traversals

Easy

[sterile geode]

they're not that hard to learn tho

try path sum ii

[cursive tide]

I just suck at dfs/bfs-ing generally speaking

I don’t memorize the algo

[cursive tide]

Ty I’ll take a look at that

I hope meta doesn’t ask me that on Thursday lmfao

[sterile geode]

just go through blind 75 trees and/or graphs (although the graph questions ask for specific algos like topological sort, etc.) but number of islands should be a good one

[open lichen]

ok

so say i got perfect OA 1 by passing all test cases

what is perfect OA2

because it's not actual coding questions right it's just LPs and shit

[broken ocean]

its a workplace simulator

u answer how u would respond to different scenarios

[paper gorge]

^

[paper gorge]

Yes, that's what you gotta study bro

[broken ocean]

Passing 316/318 on 3sum practice lolw

[open lichen]

[cursive tide]

Can 3sum even be linear

[open lichen]

isn't it just o(n^2)

[broken ocean]

yeah

o(nlogn) for sort then o(n^2) because outer for loop to iterate and inner for loop for left and right pointers

[open lichen]

n^2 dominates so just n^2 then

[broken ocean]

i am aware

this is mega brain algos stuff

bigger term dominates :thinksmart:

[open lichen]

me smooth

caveman

only understand basic concept

are u studying for final

[broken ocean]

me too

yes its fucking tomorrow

[open lichen]

poggers

i'm doing OA2 today

[broken ocean]

i found out about it being tomorrow yesterday

[open lichen]

epic nice braddah

[broken ocean]

and i didnt evne say i was available

[open lichen]

huehue

late in the process

so shit moves fast

stinky

i hope they dont goon me fast if i pass oa2

i have a busy weekend

[broken ocean]

bro i fucking botched oa2

[open lichen]

isn't amazon lots of graphs

[broken ocean]

oa1*

i did bad on oa1 and i assume well on oa2

[open lichen]

did they just make u do 1 final

after oa2

[broken ocean]

ye i think all interns just have 1x45mi

min

[open lichen]

dank

hopefully yours is easy

[broken ocean]

give me balanced bst

i can do that more or less

[open lichen]

ayo

are u just doing tagged

or

[broken ocean]

just looking at blind75 videos

[broken ocean]

damn i cant focus rn

[cursive tide]

Think about the cost reward ratio here

If you pass the interview, you get to work at Amazon for 3 months, get paid fat stacks, get tons of experience, potentially a return off for job security after college

All you’ve gotta do is dedicate all ur time from now till the final interview to studying

Idk about you but sacrificing 1 or 2 days for all the benefits you get from interning at Amazon is 100% worth it

So while you’re doing smth else like watching Tiktok/YouTube or playing some game or smth, just remember that ur time could be better spent working towards landing the internship

[paper gorge]

^^^

time is money bbroski

[broken ocean]

understood

I have about 19 hours until

[broken ocean]

are the questions that the leetcode bot here does relevant to final

[tough cypress]

Yes

[tough cypress]

And tagged

[broken ocean]

mega kekw

[tough cypress]

[broken ocean]

i dont know how to code

sheesh

love using try and catch blocks because i dont feel like handling edge cases

[open lichen]

LOL

do u just spam submit a shit ton

based

[broken ocean]

when i first started out yeah

i didnt realize it counted the ratio of success to submission

[broken ocean]

fuck yeah i just did house robber off the noggin

:D

[open lichen]

[sterile geode]

ur cracked innit

[broken ocean]

If I get house robber in interview🤡

[cursive tide]

now do it in o(1) space

👀

i would be so happy if they gave me house robber

[broken ocean]

Do it in O(1) space 😵‍💫

I think it’s possible I just gotta think

[cursive tide]

you can do that problem with 2 variables

no array needed

[broken ocean]

You can just save the max of -2 and max of -2

-1*

[cursive tide]

you could also mod the array indices by 2 and it would still work

[broken ocean]

It’s like just taking a ‘left’ and ‘right’ then doing max = max(left + nums[i], right)

[cursive tide]

yeeeee pretty much

i can show u mine if you want

[broken ocean]

I’m alright I got the idea

[broken ocean]

well boys

t-25

[paper gorge]

Gl my friend

[broken ocean]

tyty

[open lichen]

goodluck king

[broken ocean]

well that was something

@open lichen @paper gorge post interview time

[sterile geode]

how was technical

[broken ocean]

my interviewer said i solved the question but asked if i could optimize in any way and i was unsure

i snipped a pic of my answer but i dont wanna send it for confidentiality reasons

i think my answer was pretty alright. i noticed that the question was not a lot like leetcode (same with oa's)

[sterile geode]

What kinda question was it

[broken ocean]

wdym

[sterile geode]

Categorical wise, tree, strings, graphs

[paper gorge]

^

[broken ocean]

hwo do i email back with a followup

i asked for the recruiter's email but she said just ask questions thru the sde-interns and it gets rerouted

[broken ocean]

What’s the quickest turnaround on amazon rejecting after final lol

[paper gorge]

2-3 days

[random snow]

No need for this don't worry

How was your behavioural @broken ocean

[broken ocean]

I think it went pretty alright

I was able to come to a solution on the coding and I think it worked tho I couldn’t provide and optimizations

[random snow]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[snow lava]

what kind of behavioral questions do they ask for interns? should you prepare a story for each of the 16 LPs?

[paper gorge]

Yeah, they ask about how you relate your personal experiences to LPs

Personal experience regarding leadership, teamwork, etc

[random snow]

2-3 stories is often enough to cover the big LPs... I always tell people to have a few stories that apply to the following LP concepts

• bias for action
• customer obsession
• meeting deadlines
  They also like to hear about your thought process around "scale", as in for does your work affect a massive number of people

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/amazon-leadership-principles.html check out possible questions here

This is both very important AND easy to prepare for... So spend some time crafting your stories

[snow lava]

thank you so much!

[snow lava]

@random snow hi! for a story regarding customer obsession, do customers mean like (paying) customers that are using a service you helped create?

or could customers mean like any individual who has benefited from something you've done/created? like it doesn't have to mean a legit customer?

[random snow]

Ya it could be anyone using the product you're developing... Either fellow employees if it's an internal tool or paying customers 👌🏼👌🏼

[snow lava]

i see, so is having some industry experience kind of essential to answer this?

i have had previous internship experience, but my work didn't really affect customers directly. and my other technical experience are from team projects or hackathons. would it still be possible to use this kind of experience for questions on customer obsession?

[random snow]

Who did your work affect? That's the customer!

Customer can be anyone... It can be customers or coworkers... Whoever your work impacts

[naive grove]

^

[cursive tide]

@magic sierra

yo

So for OA2 it's just a workplace simulator lmfaoooo

You'll do some debugging and you'll need to make decisions for tough scenarios

[magic sierra]

Shit wow bro

[cursive tide]

For example, should you miss a deadline to make a complete project or meet the deadline with incomplete work

its not bad at all it took me <1 hour to do

Be sure to brush up on the LPs before you take it so your decisions are in line with amazons way of thinking

[magic sierra]

Lmao funny wuestions

Ok

[cursive tide]

it'll either be

"Rate the effectiveness of this choice"

or

"Which of these choices would you do"

[magic sierra]

So like zero coding

Kne of the ppl in this thread refer to them as “LP”

Interesting ok

[dim geode]

This thread still alive lol

#2022_summer message

where it started

[cursive tide]

LP is leadership principle

[rotund dagger]

Anybody (preferably from the UK) got an Amazon final interview anytime soon?

[magic sierra]

Yea bro I think Im about to

I just have to take phase 2

[rotund dagger]

as in the 'day in the life' thing?

[magic sierra]

I took the Google Internship Interview and got eliminated

Now Imma try Amazon I hope I got in guys

So what soecific questions would you recommend looking into for the amazon interview?

[magic sierra]

Ser would you be interested in sharing what they asked to you on the final round as a coding question??

[royal geyser]

i cant get an amazon oa someone help please

[magic sierra]

I have been applying for the past 2-3 years bro they finally gave me one on the year that Ill be graduating from Undergrad

[royal geyser]

damn

[naive grove]

oh

damn

[paper gorge]

What year are you in college?

[random snow]

Same... Been applying every year and didn't get it until this year urghh

[royal geyser]

junior

[naive grove]

i guess target school buff

is op

didn't think it made a difference in cs but ig so

[open lichen]

why would it not make a difference for cs

[teal osprey]

Thanks a lot for this thread! And yes it's still alive, I think this shows that it would be a good idea to have threads for different big companies where a lot of people apply.

[dim geode]

Dw homie keep ya head up and keep grinding you'll be good 💪

[paper gorge]

the amazon process thread has helped a lot of folks out

[magic sierra]

hi ser what question did they ask you on the real interview would you interested in sharing that?

[dim geode]

bruh it was like 7 months ago man I don't remember

[magic sierra]

ok

[random snow]

I'm gonna post tips about the behavioural portion so it's easy to reference

Have 2 or 3 really good stories that you can apply to multiple principles What my interviewer kinda said he liked and what l've seen online:

• bias for action
• meeting deadlines
• how you handle data, implications of scale in your stories make a point of demonstrating how you do those things and you'll be gucci
  https://www.levels.fyi/blog/amazon-leadership-principles.html

When telling stories, make it very very clear which LPs you're addressing... they'll make note of that

• bias for action means prioritizing action instead of sitting around discussing/thinking about something for too long
• how you handle data means you think of how the code you write scales when your handling massive amounts of data, or massive amounts of customers... think about the effects at a big scale
• customer obsession: in all your stories mention how your priority was customer impact and that the customer is happy etc
  ...and maybe one more thing
• try to demonstrate long term thinking, they really like that

✨ Behavioural is HUGE and easy to prepare for... it might get you the offer if you don't do well on the technical (just like me lmao)

[paper gorge]

i had a friend who didnt even get asked any behavioral questions by the interviewer

his interviewer kept slamming leetcode followups

and he got rejected

dude got fucked, feelsbad

[cursive tide]

Wow....

[tough cypress]

someone said they didn't get asked behavioral questions and then got asked a hard

very sad

[paper gorge]

got the reject in the end?

[tough cypress]

yea

[open lichen]

final done

!remind me five business days

[tough cypress]

gl 🙏

[random snow]

How'd it go bruh

✨

[open lichen]

was dope

great rapport with the interviewer

he was a chad

[random snow]

Yooooo good luck!!!

[magic sierra]

Guys the second thing is a joke

[magic sierra]

I tried to answer with common sense

I kept in mind the LPs and it was straight forward

😂

[open lichen]

the oa2?

[broken ocean]

Second thing is legit “hmm how can I suck off the customer while adhering to a schedule”

[magic sierra]

Yes bro

[magic sierra]

Ahahahaha so true 🤣 🤣😂🤣

[paper gorge]

Facts bro

[magic sierra]

On the final interview does Amazon expect you to solve the question perfectly and improve your answer or do they just check for how you approach the problem?

[paper gorge]

it doesnt have to be perfect

[covert cape]

How bad did you do on technical if you wanna say, lol. Did you get the 3x45 or 1x30?

[broken ocean]

1x45 for intern

[random snow]

Intern is 1x45. I got non optimal solution and explained the deficiency of my code ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Interviewer wouldn't give me a hint no matter how much I prodded 😅😅 we just moved on to behavioural

[broken ocean]

i did behavioral first

It was awkward during technical bc I was just talking and the interviewer said like 2 words in the 30-40 mins I spent on the coding before asking about bugs/optimizations

[random snow]

Bruh sounds just like mine... Idk why he wouldn't give me a freaking hint like help me out dawg 🤣

[cursive tide]

My guy was kind of the opposite

He gave me plenty of hints

[broken ocean]

Mine gave a few clarifications at the start to help me get started

[cursive tide]

My problem was straight off LC, exact same test cases and everything

But it was Microsoft tagged

[broken ocean]

Mine was not on lc

A similar was but not the same

It was premium 💀

[paper gorge]

all interns are 1x45

[magic sierra]

What does this even mean bro “1x45”?

1x30

Like whats the meaning of this does this mean like passing 1 of the 30 cases??

[random snow]

1x45 = one 45 minute interview

[magic sierra]

Oh ok thx

[magic sierra]

Lol. I passed all the damn test cases

[covert cape]

Jesus, thats rough. Maybe your behavioral answers werent good? Heard amzn especially cares more about behavioral

[paper gorge]

F

[magic sierra]

Bro I prepped hard

How the ffffck am I supposed to be good at both man.

I got a printout

[tough cypress]

was this for the OA?

[magic sierra]

I read through it

[magic sierra]

Yea man

[tough cypress]

oa is really weird and rng

I moved on to final and had 40% of all test cases passing

[paper gorge]

^

amazon is weird

[magic sierra]

Maybe they are looking for 3rd year students

[cursive tide]

It could be the behavioral dude, I know someone who got perfect oa1 and got rejected

[magic sierra]

Im senior Ill grafuate this year

[covert cape]

I remember before doing OA2 I asked what answers to prioritize in this server and most people said leadership, customers and company-beneficial answers

[tough cypress]

yeah its probably behavioral

[paper gorge]

are you sure you did as well on the behavioral work sim as you thought?

[covert cape]

Unlucky though, keep grinding. OA's are all about luck. Some get 2 easies, some get 2 hards. You'll get something eventually.

[tough cypress]

I legit just chose any option that included overtime, meeting deadlines and things like that

[magic sierra]

Its most prolly the country that Im from and my year of graduation

[tough cypress]

what pogs said

[paper gorge]

do you have a moment to speak about our lord and savior, customer obsession?

[tough cypress]

[magic sierra]

I dont have EU citizenship

[tough cypress]

oh yeah that could cause issues too

[paper gorge]

wait then why did you apply for EU then

[magic sierra]

Im also a 4th year so maybe they are only considering 3rd and 4th years

[magic sierra]

Bro Im from Turkey.

[tough cypress]

I dont think year matters, even freshmens get amazon

[paper gorge]

ah

[magic sierra]

I dont have anywhere else to apply

[covert cape]

I doubt its that, you were just unlucky

[paper gorge]

junior year interns are preferred, but i cant prove that theres a preference

but if you got an OA, that means you got past resume screening

ah, that makes sense.