SDE 1 at Amazon

How it went

What they would tell you

Round by round

1. 1

   OA90 min

   The test came in three parts coding first, then HR, and a final part that slips my memory In the online assessment, I got two medium-level coding problems.

   • Buy Flowers
   • Partition List
2. 2

   DSA60 min

   There were two DSA questions. One was around Hash Tables kind of medium-hard. I solved it using sorting and gave an optimal approach. The other was a heap/priority queue problem, more on the medium side. I only had time to show brute force, but I explained the optimal idea to the interviewer. Both had O(n) solutions.

   • Maximum Points on a Line
   • Top K Frequent Elements

What came up