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You can clarify that with the interviewer, usually they will let you use libraries unless they are specifically interested in that particular function you are importing from the library. So make sure you clarify that with your interviewer

@@SprintMaster thanks sir..for your guidance

I would suggest whichever you are more comfortable with, and if you are comfortable with both, then choose one of them and don’t be afraid to change the language when you feel a particular question can be solved with the other better. Hope that answers your question

@@SprintMaster ok sir I will start from python...

Haha… Yes they are not easy, and neither do I project that they are easy. It was just sharing my experience to get an idea of what you can expect. And preparation is all that matters. And this video might help with some of that.

I think around 2 hours a day for a month

I prepared using Cracking the coding Interview book, geeksforgeeks.com

Depends on if you are fresh grad or coming with some experience I think. Usually for sde1s system design isn’t critical. Your recruiter should be able to help you with that to let you know if it is required or not.

Yes sir, you can use any programming language.

@@SprintMaster thank you very much for the reply 😁🙏

Nope. If the recruiter didn’t say anything about phone interview, you don’t have to worry about it. I have seen people got onsite directly without phone screen. It is not uncommon.

I am so sorry for this late reply. In general OAs will have couple of coding questions, and couple of behavioral questions. But since this is a student intern OA, I personally don’t know what is the pattern there. But in my experience student interns won’t be asked any complicated coding problems. The questions are straight forward, and may be they are based on the CS fundamentals. I would highly encourage you to ask this question to your recruiter. They are usually helpful and can guide you on how to prepare.

I got call from amazon for level 5 kindly explain

In Amazon Level 5 is the second level of an engineer. SDE roles start from L4 in amazon. So yes this is senior SDE but not very senior. Typically if you have industry experience of at least 2 years, they consider you for L5. But after the interview, they may change decisions and give you L4. You don’t have to worry too much about that, you can proceed with interviews and take them.

Hello Uon, sorry for the late reply. I was out on a vacation and couldn’t catch up comments. Anyways, you could expect similar difficulty of that of phone screen. But for the onsite, they may ask you some extensions of the question, and expect you to solve the problem in optimal way and be raising the bar for the level you are interviewing. And for the data structures, there is no limitation on what data structures can be asked. It is the choice of your interviewer. Hope that answers your question.

There is a cool off period for onsite or phone interview failure, and I am not too sure about online assessment. But if I had to guess, there will be one but may not be as long as that of onsite or phone screen

It was around 3 days or so that I was called and mentioned that I got the job. But the actual offer took little more than that as I had to talk with hiring managers to finalize team

Yep, thats totally okay to give interview in PHP, and when asked about data structure based question, you can use whatever data structure you prefer. If interviewer wants more on implementation of data structure, they will ask you. As long as you are able to implement a data structure from the scratch you should be good.

Thank you!

Hello Aratrika, sorry for the delayed response. But I personally didn’t have much experience with that type of assessment. In general, if it is for workstyle assessment, I would say, your code should be modularized, easy to read, and have proper testing associated with it. Unfortunately I can’t answer beyond that as I don’t have much context on it.

Hello Bonke, whatever the programming languages you know are good enough to crack the interviews. If you want to learn java too, you can and it can help you in the long run.

Hello Pranav, are you studying engineering? Or any further education?

Hey D C, I didn’t post my notes anywhere as I lost it myself.

Hey Sankar, thanks for the feedback. I tried whiteboard at one point. But there were some lighting issues. So had to change it to this way.

Hey Bhavya, I am no expert when it comes to univ choices. But I can say you this much, it totally depends on your preferences like, your choice of specialization, preferences on weather, part time opportunities, indian community support, financial support etc.. I would suggest you reach out to current students of these univs in facebook groups and ask specific questions and choose a univ.

You mean O(nlogn) < O(n^2) right. Nice catch. I missed it.

@@SprintMaster No problem. Cheers! 👍

Yes, I was able to write code for the basic ask. The question was then extended for which I couldn’t write code but I was able to talk through the solution.

After the onsite, there typically won’t be any more rounds. But you will be talking with your potential manager to get an idea of what the team is, and what it does, etc… before getting an offer.

Sure, lot of candidates use Python for their Interviews. So python definitely works

@@SprintMaster thank you for your kind reply sir

Hey Keval, for the data structures I started with MIT data structures course which is available on CZcams, and then I started writing notes on different data structures with some research on internet and that’s pretty much. Ofcourse solving the problems is the major part though

Yes, and that’s pretty much standard among most of big tech companies

@@SprintMaster what if we unable to do it

You should be able to write some code. It may not be a perfect code, but you are required to write some code if you want to get in. Also, it is not about how perfect is your code. It is about how good you are at solving the given problem

Hello, there isn’t a book which suggests which data structure to solve a problem, because there never is a single method of solving a problem. However choosing a optimal data structure by problem is something you will need, and unfortunately that comes only with practice. You can get a sense of what data structures to use for a particular type of problem with “Cracking the coding Interview book”. But ultimately practice helps you to recognize such things. Do leetcode everyday and you will get good at it.

There is no specific set topic for online assessment. It is pretty much same concepts as that of onsite or phone screen interviews

Whatever language you are most comfortable with should do fine. If you are good at multiple languages and java is one of them, I would prefer java as most teams use java across Amazon.

Thank you

Hello Trupti, I would highly recommend asking the recruiter to postpone the assessment if you are not prepared. However if they insist, and you want to give a try, then leetcode is definitely a good option. Along with practicing previous problems, spend at least a day focusing on the basics of data structures, and searching and sorting techniques, and learning the basics of concepts like Dynamic programming, and bit manipulation. With the given amount of time, that’s pretty much you can do. And while solving problems, try to at least code for Brute Force techniques if not for optimal. And again, i would recommend talking with recruiter to extend the date. Anyways all the best, and have a happy and successful new year!!

Thank you Fahad!