Amazon Interview Experience for SDE intern | On Campus (December 2019)

Position: SDE Intern
Location: Bangalore

Online Assessment:
The test was conducted on mettl platform.
It was divided into two parts:

1. First section consisted of gate level C, DS and algo based MCQ questions.
2. Second section consisted of two coding questions
   • First question was based on Kadane’s algorithm
   • Second  question was a medium level logic based question

Interview: Out of 690 students only 57 were selected for the final
interview process.

Round 1:

• Tell me about yourself
• Trapping Rain Water:
  https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/trapping-rain-water/amp/
• Maximum product:
  https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-maximum-product-of-a-triplet-in-array/amp/

Round 2:

• Tell me about yourself
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sorted-linked-list-to-balanced-bst/amp/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-a-stack-that-supports-getmin-in-o1-time-and-o1-extra-space/amp/

Note :
Areas to work upon while preparing for coding interviews:

• Understand the question properly asked by the interviewer
• Give various scenarios and the test cases and ask different
  questions in order to understand the question properly.
• Ask the right questions to clarify your doubts.
• Analyze the problem clearly and write various patterns on the paper
• Try to find brute force solution first.
• Then tell the optimised solution and try to tell the solution logically.
• Also check for the edge cases while thinking about your solution.
• NULL checks, overflows and also check test the boundary conditions
• Practice on pen and paper.

Pro tip:
Keep a smile on your face while giving an interview 🙂 All the best!!!