My Amazon Interview Experience | Software Engineer
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Hey whoever comes across this!
Technical interviews are super stressful, especially for new grads. I hope this video helps give you an idea of what a typical tech interview process is like and how to go about prepping.
I did not end up accepting the offer but overall my interview experience was positive. My recruiter moved quickly and communicated well.
Good luck and remember to not get discouraged if you don't get an offer! Take it as a learning experience and reapply. We have all been there.
*** Extremely Helpful Resources ***
DS and Algorithms and System Design Concepts
Back to Back SWE / @backtobackswe
System Design Interview
/ @systemdesigninterview
Practice Problems
hackerrank.com
leetcode.com - Krátké a kreslené filmy
HEY I got into amazon thanks to you. I watched your video 2 weeks ago before onsite, I just got the offer for AWS. MUCH LOVE!!!!
How's it been? I keep getting hit up by their recruiters but have no desire to work for them tbh
Yeah how’s it been? I’m about to take the assessment in a week
Wow, for someone as young as you. I am thoroughly impressed by your maturity and smarts in handling all of this. Very impressive! I have 10 years of SWE experience and have crazy trouble sticking to a study schedule. I havent done algorithms and data structures like what Amazon tests for since college
Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
My pleasure!
This was great, thanks for putting this out there!
glad it helped!
congrats on the offer! I have an oa next week, its my first interview and lowkey nervous lol
Thank you so much for sharing your experience 🙏
Thank you for sharing very much! I am preparing for Amazom SWE interview recently and I am a little bit nervious. This video has a lot of useful info. to me. Thanks!
How did it go?
@@jogatavid Thank you! I got another offer. I even don't have a successful OA link from Amazon becauseof its technical issue😅
Brief and helpful ! Thank you for that
Thanks for the details.you earned a subscriber
Great stuff, please more tech vids!
for sure! thanks for watching
Really informative. Thank you
Insightful video 👍. I messed up my OA because I had been practicing Dynamic Programming questions and just out of habit, used an array in the OA questions when it was not even needed at all. Smh
Study various subject and sets.. called well known algorithm problem will help u which algorithm gonna use for solving problems
Thank you so much for this video! Very helpful and so much information :)
Glad it was helpful!
@@goldengirlgains so sweet ^^. I got one questionnn. Did they have a specific programming language you did the problems in? Like C++? Or can you choose the language? My strongest is Python atm and then C++.
You could choose the language
You gave me hope ❤️ I am prepping for the worst 🥶
you got it! good luck
I watched this twice, like I got an Amazon interview coming up or something lol...very insightful tho! Ty 🙌🏾
How did it go after these past few years?
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thank you for this video it really helped
Glad it helped!
Thanks for the nice video! It was really helpful:) Can I ask if you get the interview from student fair or you did apply directly?
No, let’s make it a tech channel :D
You’re awesome!!!
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@Bryant Finn i watch on Flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Colson Angelo Yup, I have been watching on flixzone for years myself :D
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@Bryant Finn glad I could help xD
Hey I am graduating next semester. I like the info, my question is what do you think set you apart to land the interview in the first place?
I dread the behavioral interview questions more than the technical ones tbh
i got asked the counting the number of players to level up (ranking) within the cutoff and counting the number of maximum area of 1's in a 2d matrix within 70 mins for the internship position y-y
thanks
omg girl me too. hackerrank words questions so bad it’s gives me so much anxiety I hate it
For a second I thought you are Missandei from Game of Thrones, thanks for sharing
Hey I do not know if you check this. I did the practice hackerbox they sent me before taking the real assessment. I found them to be two medium leetcode questions, did you find the demo to be harder than The actual assessment ?
Than you
Very impressed in your smarts. Someone young that is able to go so far. You need to share the knowledge with the rest of us brothas. Peace.
What was the reason you rejected Amazon and chose another offer ?
Hey, I have a question. I am in a similar job opportunity.. and I would love if you could help me out with some of the questions that I have. Would you be available?
I just had the coding test today and your video will surely be very insightful for me if I get to step forward to the next stages. Did you have on site interview or remotely? I was reached out from Amazon UC Dublin.
congrats on your interview i hope you move forward! i interviewed remotely
@@goldengirlgains thank you. It was pretty unexpected as I wasn't really prepared for it given I joined Nokia just six months ago but even if I don't move forward or get an offer, I'm sure I'll be thankful for this experience to make me more prepared in future when I'll be actively looking for an opportunity.
@@Makaveli1313 no but I learned how to handle such offers when the recruiters reach out to you even when you aren't actively looking for opportunities yet they would want you to sit for Algo tests. Just accept the offer to sit for the technical test after initial screening and then take your time to prepare - which even can be over a year 😂
I currently have couple of such offers which I left hanging while I take my time to prepare and one of them is from Microsoft.
@@Makaveli1313 you actually don't need much preparations for onsite as those are very practical and not much about theoretical algo problems. At least from where I stand, as I don't have a CS degree and in day to day development, don't use much of algo at all, passing the initial coding test is where I get stuck. Live coding and behavioral interviews are breeze for me as I'm comfortable with those thanks to daily development practice.
hello, how are you saying? you mean, what were they asking you about Data Structure? What you mention, in this video, is not minor, I mean, it is an intermediate to advanced level, in Computer Science. Thanks dear friend.
Dynamic programming is my major weakness 😵
Did you able to solve all tech questions? I did my onsite interview yesterday and couldn’t finish them cause run out of time. Thank you for sharing this!
i was able to finish the questions. nice i hope your interview went well!
They are still doing onsites during the pandemic? What about for an SWE with 10 years of experience?
hey! My tech&behavioral interview will be next week and I am wondering if dynamic programming is a topic that might be evaluated. What do you think? It is possible?
You should study hard if DP or greedy problem come out
I've got this interview coming up. How can I get in contact with you?
I'm doing my Amazon New Grad OA soon and I'm quite nervous
You got this! Dont be afraid to ask your recruiter for a week extension if you need a little more prep time. they are usually pretty accommodating
Do you have that study guide?
I have a phone screen interview tomorrow for Amazon in New York and I am kinda nervous lol. I don't know if it will go well but if it does I guess I will have to get on that leetcode studying
congrats on the interview hope it goes well!
@@goldengirlgains thank you! I guess it went well since he sent an online assessment my way after that. I barely studied like a day though. Only solved one of the two coding questions :(
youll get it next time !
@@goldengirlgains thanks! They ended up asking me to do a chime interview after the OA but I don’t think my interviewers were impressed because it’s been almost two weeks and I haven’t heard back 😅
@@shakirasunshinez give them a nudge. On their interview prep site they say they try to get back within 2 days, and to email them if it’s been longer
Hi, I agree with you. I solved the 2 coding questions (which I think not that hard) but I only passed like 12 of 16 test cases, would that be okay? It's more on code optimization. Also, how many interviewers did you talk to?
Im not sure how they judge the online technical assessment. i would imagine that depends on the level of difficulty of the question. And in total I had 7 or 8 interviewers.
@@goldengirlgains wow! Thats a lot of interviews!Anyway, thanks for the info :)
Can you share you experience please?
@@_lphad8388 i did not pass the online technical assessment. You need to pass maybe 90% of the test cases, must optimize your code the fastest it could run.
Why didn’t you accept the offer?
Hi were the questions asked similar to Leetcode premium questions for Amazon company?
I dont know ive never used leetcode premium
What did you feel like your onsite interview questions were at like med on hacker rank? I did the OA and did find to extremely easy. Waiting on email to schedule on virtual on site. Curious to how difficult the questions get. I do find easy on hackrank and stuff is like overly easy where medium seem like a huge bump up.
i totally feel the same way. the onsite i felt was at medium on hackerrank. the questions were definitely very fair no like wordy ones or trick questions like some of the medium ones on hackerrank
@@goldengirlgains Did they make you do any white boarding during the on site? Or any programming on the browser or just specific questions?
Thank you for sharing your awesome experience! Please can i know why to didn't accept the offer?
Sure thing! I was interviewing with multiple companies and decided to go with another offer
commenting for more reach!
what type of projects for getting interview
For an entry level role, I suggest anything that demonstrates your coding ability thats relevant to your interests. So maybe contributing to open source, creating a web/mobile app, visualizing/analyzing datasets, experimenting with different APIs etc.
How much time did it take for the recruiter to get in touch with you, after you submitted the online assessment?
it was pretty quick. The next day i believe
@@goldengirlgains thanks! Wishing you the best for the channel😊
which language did you take the interview in?
python
What language did you use?
python
Did you pick your programming language?
Yes I did
For my Amazon interview, I spent a month, 8 hours a day, 7 days a week to prepare!
Wow and how well did you did?
@@eduardouriegas1775 I did well enough that they hired me, but poorly enough that they downgraded me to L4 (originally interviewing for L5). I was able to get to L5 relatively quickly, but it's a lot of paper works to get promoted at Amazon. So it's really better to just get in as L5. Obviously, given the stress of interview, it's easier said than done.
@@adamkou5475 Wow, it really pays out studying hard!
@@eduardouriegas1775 Honestly, I don't think my study helped me a lot, technically speaking. I am not a person who does well under stress. So I had to psychologically convince myself that I was super super well prepared. A less anxious and calmer person should not need the amount of preparation I did.
@@adamkou5475 Ooh I see, at least you took action about it. Btw thanks for sharing your experience Adam.
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Can you provide us your study guide so that we can use as an additional note?
Im going to be aggregating my study resources and interview questions for all the companies I interviewed with soon. Will post an update when i so
@@goldengirlgains Same request please, I am in the final round and I have an onsite interview coming
@@yahyaabdulhakeem7969 how did it go? Can you share your experience?
@@goldengirlgains Any updates golden girl?
6:04
btw, could you get an offer?
yes i ended up getting an offer
@@goldengirlgains congratulations 👏
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thank you!
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