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4 rounds | 6 Coding problems

Anonymous

Fresher | Jan 2021

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Interview preparation journey

Preparation

Duration: 4 Months

Topics: Data Structures, OOPS, Dynamic Programming, Algorithms, Amazon Leadership Principles, Aptitude(Mental Ability)

Tip

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as online test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the experiences from geeks for geeks and leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do atleast 2 good projects and must know every bit of them.

Application process

Where: Other

Eligibility: Graduating in 2021(Btech/Mtech/MCA in computers or related branch), CGPA should be 6.5/10 and above with no backlogs in any year/semester of engineering, Candidates who have appeared for an Amazon Interview process in the past six months are not eligible.

Resume tip

Tip 1 : Have atleast 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Interview rounds

Round

Medium

Online Coding Interview

Duration120 Minutes

Interview date14 Jan 2021

Coding problem2

Timing was as per our choice in whole day.
Test environment was really good.
It had 4 sections :
1. Code debugging
2. Coding
3. Aptitude
4. Behavioural Questions

1. Reverse List In K Groups

Hard

15m average time

85% success

0/120

Asked in companies

You are given a linked list of 'n' nodes and an integer 'k', where 'k' is less than or equal to 'n'.

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2. Bridges in a Graph

Moderate

25m average time

65% success

0/80

Asked in companies

Given an undirected graph of V vertices and E edges. Your task is to find all the bridges in the given u...

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Round

Medium

Video Call

Duration60 Minutes

Interview date31 Jan 2021

Coding problem2

This round comprised of Introduction followed by 2 coding questions to be coded on live, Amazon's shared coding platform.
Platform used for interview is Amazon Chime.

1. Number of Islands

Easy

0/40

Asked in companies

You have been given a non-empty grid consisting of only 0s and 1s. You have to find the number of islands in the given grid.

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2. Convert Bst To The Greater Sum Tree

Moderate

30m average time

70% success

0/80

Asked in companies

You have been given a Binary Search Tree of integers. You are supposed to convert it to a greater sum tree such t...

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Round

Medium

Video Call

Duration60 Minutes

Interview date6 Feb 2021

Coding problem1

This round consisted of introduction followed by 1 coding question to be coded on shared online coding platform.

1. Technical Question

It was a kind of situational problem which I had to solve using optimum data structures.Questions was a bit of like event scheduling based but was a practical scenario based.

Round

Medium

Video Call

Duration60 Minutes

Interview date13 Feb 2021

Coding problem1

This round comprised of introduction, 3-4 behavioural situation based questions and 1 coding question to be coded on shared coding platform.