Recently I was interviewed by Amazon for SDE-2, here is my experience.
Current Status: 3.5 YOE with the product-based company.
Online Assessment:
105 minutes including 2 coding questions and a section to explain the approach and time and space complexity.
- Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-area-of-a-piece-of-cake-after-horizontal-and-vertical-cuts/
- Similar to https://aonecode.com/amazon-online-assessment-algorithm-swap.
After the coding section, there was a section for behavioral questions.
Onsite:
Round 1: (1.5 hours)
Two LP questions.
- Based on Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit principle
- Based on Are Right, A Lot of principles.
System Design.
- Design a bulk update records/files kind of API for a client.
Round 2 (1.5 hours)
Two LP questions.
- Based on Customer Obsession.
- Did not remember exactly.
Two Coding questions:
- Similar to https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/minimum-cost-to-merge-all-elements-of-list/amp/
- Based on the Interval tree.
The further rounds were based on the performance of the first two rounds. I was not able to clear those, so didn’t have any more rounds.
Hope this will help others. All the best !!!