screening followed by technical rounds focussed on DSA and leetcode problems. Mostly intermediate.
Some focus on my experience which was relevant with AWS
Interviewers were knowledgable but curt and seemed stressed
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two sorted arrays arr1 and arr2 of size x and y respectively, return the median of the two sorted arrays.
The overall run time complexity should be O(log (x+y)).
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA) in Sept 2024
Interview
First Round - Design Amazon Search Page. API implementation and UI related questions. Main Loop - String parsing with recursion, LRU cache implementation for a very open ended question. Behavioral rounds for 2 hours
