Amazon Interview Experience: SDE : Set 15

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• Campus: on-campus

Company Name: Amazon

Job Role: SDE

Years of Experience Required: Fresher (0 Yrs.)

Drive: On-Campus

Preparation for Amazon

Topics: Data Structures and Algorithms

Duration: 3-4 months

Source of Preparation: Leetcode, GFG, Striver’s SDE sheet.

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• Check Striver’s SDE Sheet for Interview Preparation.
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• Blind 75 Leetcode

Amazon Interview Rounds

Round 1: Online Coding Test. 2 Coding Questions were asked.

• You are given an array of prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on an ith day. You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock. Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.(Stock buy and sell)
• Determine if the sum of two integers is equal to the given value. (2-sum problem)

Round 2: (Technical Interview)

• Find Longest Common Prefix
• Given a string s, reverse the words of the string.

Round 3: (Technical Interview)

• What is difference between process and thread.
• What is a deadlock in OS
• You are given a string. Your task is to find the longest palindromic substring.

Round 4: (Technical Interview + Managerial round)

• Why should we hire you.
• What are your strength and weekness.
• Given a linked list, and a number N. Find the Nth node from the end of this linkedlist, and delete it. Return the head of the new modified linked list.

Verdict: Selected

Message to Aspiring Students:

They will help you are struck just think loud. Practice well and you will ace the interview.