The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
Applied online last year, got an email asking for my availability in January, but got back to me with the interview process in March. 2 phone interviews, each about 45 minutes.
Both are technical based. The first one asked a lot of complexity and data structure questions, and the second one asked some definitions and coding. I felt alright for the first interview, but the second one just sucked. And I felt like the interviewer wasn't very good at communicating with people.
Topics covered in the interview:
1. reverse linked list
2. hash table
3. binary tree
4. Fibonacci sequence
5. chess design
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
