Amazon SDE Interview Experience | A Success Story | Sprint Master
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- In this video, I share my Amazon Interview Experience which helped me land a job with Amazon.
Interviews are always a unique experience. Some of those experiences are sweet while some of them are not so great. In this video, I talk about my sweet Interview experience with Amazon by giving you a complete journey of how got a job with Amazon starting with recruiters to the Amazon Job Offer.
Following are the key timelines in this video
1. What is an Interview Experience - 00:25
2. Amazon Recruiters - 01:13
3. What is a Phone Screen Interview - 03:00
4. Amazon Phone Screen Interview - 03:15
5. Amazon Travel and Accommodation - 05:34
6. Amazon On-site Interview - 06:37
7. Amazon On-site Interview First Round - 07:29
8. Amazon On-site Interview Bar-Riser Round - 09:15
9. What is Amazon Bar-Riser - 09:27
10. Amazon On-site Interview Third Round - 10:48
11. Amazon On-site Interview System Design Interview Round - 11:54
12. Amazon Job Offer - 13:33
1. Recruiters
Recruiters are typically the first person a candidate talks to in their Interview Experience. A candidate's communication with the recruiter gives the first impression of the company to the candidate.
My Amazon recruiter treated me well and helped me through out my Interview process. She helped me by providing resources that are need to prepare for my Interviews, responded back quickly when I needed some help and communicated the process before hand.
2. Phone Screen
Phone Screen is typically the first interaction a candidate will have with the engineer of the company. My Amazon Phone Screen was about an hour length and during this one hour, the Interviewer asked me behavioral questions as well as a coding question, and I was able to solve it in an optimal fashion which helped me move to the Onsite Interview.
3. Travel and Accommodation
Amazon Travel team helped me to make my reservations and they paid for my flight and hotel reservations before hand. And they reimbursed all my meals and travel in between within a week period after I submitted the receipts of my travel.
4. Onsite Interview
My Onsite Interview was a 4-round Interview which started at 8.30 AM and ended by 12.30 PM. During this 4 hours, I had 4 one-hour Interviews.
My first round of Onsite Interview didn't go quite well. I was little nervous and couldn't come up with a solution right away for the question. I took my time before I started answering the question, and my Interviewer was also patient and he waited for me to respond back.
My second round of Onsite Interview was a Bar-Riser round, and I completely nailed this question and the Interviewer was completely satisfied with my solution to the problem which boosted some confidence in me and it carried me through out the rest of the Interviews.
My third round of Onsite Interview was based on a Game using Playing cards. My Interviewer explained me the game during the Interviewer and asked me to solve for the problem to find a winner of the game. I used right data structures to solve that problem and I was able to solve it.
My fourth round of Onsite Interview is a System Design Interview with Hiring Manager and in that round, my Interviewer asked a question, and I had some questions to him and I solved for the problem, and the Interviewer had more questions, and I changed my solution accordingly and it was more of an interactive session. At the end my Interviewer seemed happy.
5. Offer and Beyond
After a couple of days from my Onsite Interview, my recruiter reached out to me and told me that they are extending Job Offer to me and connected me with a new recruiter who talked through the compensation packages, and helped me connect with my manager, and that is the end of my Amazon Interview.
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Thank you so much for sharing your experience bro
Happy to help Purna. Feel free to message me if you have any questions :)
@@SprintMaster right now i am in my final year from aa teir 3 college preparing for amazon so plan is it be well prepared at the end of july then i am gonna give try for the interview
Wonderful. It’s never too early to start preparing for these Interviews. All the best for your preparation. You can directly message on Instagram as well if you have any questions. You can follow me at @sprintmaster_youtube
@@SprintMaster thank you i will it really helps me a lot someone like you guides me thank you so much brother
Thank you for sharing your experience. Any idea on how the on-site interviews are happening during these times (lock-downs and work from home scenarios)?
Hello Sukumar, as I heard due to COVID, on-site Interviews are happening just like the Phone Screen Interviews except that you will be in the same meeting for 4 hours or so, and different Interviewrs join the meeting and ask different set of questions.
@@SprintMaster thanks ram
You are welcome and all the best for your Interviews :)
Finally done with my on-site today - long and exhausted
Nice!!! I wish you best of luck and excited to hear some positive news :)
Did you get the offer?
Thanks for such an excellent video. I've my virtual onsite interview with Amazon next month. So would you mind telling me the difficulty level of questions in onsite interviews and are there any preferred data structures from which Amazon commonly asks questions?
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.
Thank you for wonderful video.
Do they do salary negotiation ? Do they ask you about your expectations ? How's salary and compensation are decided. Please make a video on that, it's very hard to find those video..
Hello Vishal, yes they do salary negotiations, and they do ask your expected salary. Basically they ask your expectations at some point in the process and when you clear on-site interview, they come up with an offer. Then you can check through details and talk with them if your expectations are different, and you can negotiate and when both of you agree, an offer letter is generated. You can read about salary negotiations and what to expect in the package in many posts over the Internet. I would suggest look for such things on medium.com or teamblind.com . They will help you to get an idea about them.
Thanks for this video, actually I have been doing competitive codeing over a month but I am still not able to think even a simple solution, just make a video on it mens how to develop logical thinking while competitive codeing,
Sure Pawan, I will try to make a video on that in the near future.
Meanwhile, I suggest you to make yourself strong in the Data structures, and practice solving the problems. as I understand you are already doing some kind of competitive coding. May I ask you how you are doing that competitive coding?
@@SprintMaster currently I practice on geegksforgeeks, and I have solved around 200 question there .
Got it, yea GeeksforGeeks is an excellent source for such questions. Keep practicing. Another thing I would recommend is to read and practice using the book "Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakman McDowell". This book will definitely help you to improve logical thinking while solving the questions.
Hello, do you think the coding questions are asked similar to Leetcode premium questions for Amazon?
Hello, questions in any FAANG companies can be similar to those questions you may see in Leetcode or geeksforgeeks. However, usually the Interviewers will add some flavor to those questions, and prepare their own version inspired from such questions. So practicing those problems will definitely help you to solve those problems
Hi, I have a phone screen interview with an Amazon recruiter next week. Will I be able to choose Python (or any programming language) to solve the technical questions? And for the onsite interview - will I be able to choose Python as well? Thanks
Hello ModBlazer, yes you can choose a programming language for your Interview. But communicate this with your recruiter in advance so that they can accommodate such requests. Most of the time, Interviewers will know multiple programming languages, so it shouldn’t be a problem. But communicating that with recruiter would be a better approach.
Did you get the job?
Sir i am a fresher and i am in confused, so far I have learned c/c++ and now I am learning java also done data structure and algorithm do I need to learn fronted course, css js, html fo the role of SDE1 at AMAZON?
Hello Pawan, in my experience as long as you have strong hold on one technology, you can definitely get through Interviews. But while you are working, you will encounter so many other technologies and at that point, you have to be agile and be willing to adapt to new technologies.
also make the video on how to apply for offline interview of Amazon 🙏, and currently I am in 4th sem so far I have leard c/c++ , ds and learning java how can I get a internship also share 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sure, will make a video on that as well. However to give a head start, you can apply for jobs at amazon.jobs website or you can reach out to Amazon recruiters on LinkedIn. Internships also work the same way. But number of positions for Internships are very less compared to full-time opportunities, and usually Internships are offered for the period of May to August. So look out for job postings and all the best for your job trials :)
Hello, i have a virtual onsite interview directly. The recruiter didn't say something about a phone interview. Should i be worried?
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.
@9:00 nothing like a good loud fart to get one's thoughts back in order!
Haha… good one lol..
Have you finished writing the code during the technical phone screen ?
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.
Can you please share what materials you studied, while preparing for interviews?
I prepared using Cracking the coding Interview book, geeksforgeeks.com
Hi sir, I had cleared coding round and was told that I will be having next rounds on 26th November. But. I didn't get any mail regarding interview after that. Waiting since 15 days for the interview schedule. Is there any chance that they don't conduct interview even after clearing coding round? I keep on asking them but not getting reply. It is very helpful if could suggest me what is the point of contact to reach out, thank you.
Hello Praveena, the point of contact will always be your recruiter. However, sometimes if they were unable to schedule a interview due to the mismatch of timelines between hiring managers and interviews, interviews can be postponed, and since this is a holiday season, its most likely someone who needs to take a decision is on a vacation or something. I would suggest you to be patient, and try to connect with your recruiter. Amazon usually doesnt interview for a team. So even if the team doesnt have any openings, you will still interviewed and offered job with other teams. So they usually don’t just pass on a candidate who cleared rounds of interviews. Hope that answers your question
@@SprintMaster Yes sir, thank you Very much for the reply. Will be patient and prepare for further rounds, thanks once again
After on site interview
What is the next round?
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.
Can you share your Educational Qualifications?
I completed my Masters in Computer Science. My bachelors is also in CS.
@@SprintMaster hi... Thanks for the video.. I also did the masters and Bachelor's in cs, but only have a basic idea on coding.. How can I start my career, what should I start with??