Amazon | SDE | India | New Grad (2024) | AUTA | Off-Campus
Summary
I applied for an SDE new grad position off-campus at Amazon in India. I went through the Online Assessment and two interview rounds, but unfortunately, I did not receive an offer despite having a positive interview experience.
Full Experience
I directly applied for an SDE New Grad position through the Amazon portal. My Online Assessment was scheduled for the first week of April 2025. The first interview round took place in the third week of May, and notably, there were no Leadership Principles questions in this round.
The second round was in the first week of July. It was initially supposed to include Leadership Principles at the beginning, but since I had no prior work experience, that part was skipped. This round was also rescheduled twice, which added a bit to the anticipation. Overall, I felt it was one of the best interview experiences I've had, but I wasn't lucky enough to secure the golden opportunity.
Interview Questions (4)
The problem presented was to merge 'k' sorted linked lists into a single sorted linked list.
I was given the classic 'Paint House' problem, where I needed to find the minimum cost to paint all houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color.
I was asked to find the largest square containing only '1's within a given 2D binary matrix and return its area.
The problem involved processing a series of flight bookings and calculating the total number of seats booked for each flight.