Amazon SDE-2 Round 1
Summary
I interviewed for an SDE-2 role at Amazon, which included two DSA problems and a Leadership Principle question. I was rejected after not being able to fully solve the technical questions.
Full Experience
DSA + LP
- Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray-sum-with-one-deletion/description/
- Remove Duplicate Letters https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-duplicate-letters/description/
I wasn’t able to solve either of the questions. I was thinking a monotonic approach for the 2nd one, but ran out of time.
Honestly, I was expecting some well-known hard/medium problems 😵💫
Leadership Principle – Tell me about a time when you simplified something.
Verdict :- Rejected
Interview Questions (3)
Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion
The problem asks to find the maximum subarray sum with the option to delete at most one element from the subarray.
Remove Duplicate Letters
The problem asks to remove duplicate letters from a string such that the resulting string is the lexicographically smallest and all unique characters are present.
Tell me about a time when you simplified something.
Behavioral question related to Amazon's Leadership Principle 'Invent and Simplify', asking to describe a situation where I simplified a complex process or solution.