I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Sat home) in Jan 2021
Interview
In the first interview, i was asked to solve few coding challenges in optimal approach in terms of time and space. It consisted of a question which expects some twists using arrays and the other question expects to use a tree. I answered them both and got selected to second round of interview.
In the second round, the interviewer gave me a coding problem and asked to solve it. I have answered it using heaps. She told me she's expecting more optimal approach. In the end, i asked her what could the better approach than using heaps and she answered saying to use 'Priority Queue'.
I was pretty much shocked to understand that the interviewer doesn't know that both are same. 'Priority Queues are nothing but using heaps. There's nothing else'
I explained her saying that priority queue is just one fancy name for what i already implemented using.
She asked me another question to which i answered using graphs and she's convinced here. Also i found her going away from the interview session and rejoining after sometime after my second question.
The interview is done and i didn't get the position.
PS: i gave optimal solutions to both the problems asked and i wasn't asked any other questions. The only thing here is the lack of knowledge of the interviewer!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer asked me to solve a coding problem
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bangalore Rural) in Oct 2024
Interview
First, they started with their introduction then and then mine for the first 5mins then, Asked me 2 questions in the Interview, 1) Find Kth smallest element in a Binary Tree. 2) Swap the M and N nodes in a LinkedList. Total Duration of Interview 1 Hr
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me 2 questions in the Interview, 1) Find Kth smallest element in a Binary Tree. 2) Swap the M and N nodes in a LinkedList. Total Duration of Interview 1 Hr
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Sep 2024
Interview
The interviews begin with an introduction and then straight away diving into the fundamentals of C++ then going forward most of the questions were about C++ like how things work in low level.