Amazon [off-campus]|Programmer Analyst|Hyderabad(India)|September 2021 [Offered]

I interviewed off-campus for the Programmer Analyst position at Amazon in Hyderabad. As a new graduate from a Tier 3 institution, I was excited to go through their rigorous interview process.

Round 1: Online Assessment (2 hours)

This round was conducted on HackerEarth and consisted of three programming questions.

Round 2: Technical Interview (1 hour)

This round started with my self-introduction, followed by two coding questions.

1. The first question was a twist on the 'Next Greater Element' problem. Instead of finding the next greater element itself, I had to find the index of the next greater element. If no greater element was present, I had to return -1. An example provided was arr = [72,73,74,70,69,70,75,76,73,72], with the expected output being [1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1].
2. The second question was the classic Two Sum Problem.

After the coding, the interviewer asked me about the most challenging task I'd undertaken in my academics or projects. I also had the opportunity to ask questions.

Round 3: Technical Interview (1 hour)

Similar to the previous round, I began with a self-introduction. The interviewer then asked me to explain my projects in depth and elaborated on the Programmer Analyst role. Two more coding questions were presented:

1. The first was to check whether a given tree is a Binary Search Tree (BST) or not.
2. The second was to find the Nth last node of a Linked List.

The interviewer also inquired about how I dived deep into the projects I had completed. I concluded by asking my own questions.

Round 4: Technical + Behavioral Interview (1 hour)

This round was primarily focused on my projects and situation-based behavioral questions.

Round 5 (Final): Technical + Behavioral Interview (1 hour)

This was considered the 'bar raiser' round. The discussion primarily revolved around my internship experience and specific projects I had worked on during that time. I was asked several behavioral questions:

• "Tell me about a time where you worked with a customer."
• "Tell me about a time where you didn’t satisfy the customer requirements."

There were also a few conceptual questions related to accuracy, precision, and recall, major concepts in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Finally, I was given a coding question:

• Given two Binary Trees, I had to check if one tree is a mirror of another tree or not.

The round concluded with some questions about my final year project and an opportunity for me to ask questions to the interviewer.

Verdict: Offered