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.

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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

Data Structures & Algorithms

The problem asks to find the maximum subarray sum with the option to delete at most one element from the subarray.

Remove Duplicate Letters

Data Structures & Algorithms

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

Behavioral question related to Amazon's Leadership Principle 'Invent and Simplify', asking to describe a situation where I simplified a complex process or solution.

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Interview Questions (3)

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