AWS New Grad上门过经

Status: New grad, MS CS Top 100 CS school
Position: SDE-1 at Amazon
Team: AWS Elastic Cache
Location of the interview: NYC
Date: October 25th

Applied through a recruiter. He made me fill an application on their portal and got OA instantly.

Online Assessment:
Part 1:
1: Reorder Data in Log Files
2. Optimal Utilization
Part 2:
Explain your algorithm for the problem and what is its time complexity?

Finished OA within 1 hour. Recruiter contacted me the next day and called me for an onsite interview.

Onsite:
Total 4 rounds, each 45 mins to 60 mins

Round 1 with SDE 3:
Questions on their leadership principles:-

Tell me about a situation where you had a conflict with someone on your team. What was it about? What did you do? How did they react? What was the outcome?
Give an example of when you saw a peer struggling and decided to step in and help. What was the situation and what actions did you take? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you committed a mistake?
Design question: Design Amazon Retail Website
Round 2 with SDM:
Questions on their leadership principles:-

Tell me about a time when your earned your teammate’s trust?
Tell me about a time when you couldn’t meet your deadline?
A lot of follow up was asked by the interview.
Coding Problem:
LRU Cache
Round 3 with SDM:
Questions on their leadership principles:-

Tell me about a time when your teammate didn’t agree with you? What did you do?
Tell me about a time when you invented something?
Coding problem:
Compare Versions
Round 4 with two SDM (Bar Raiser):
Questions on their leadership principles:-

Tell me about a time when you took important decision without any data?
Tell me about a time when you helped one of your teammates?
This interviewer gave me a hard time with his follow up questions, He went deep into my stories.
Coding Problem
Word Search
The interviewers were smart and very helpful through the interview. I got the offer within 7 days.