Amazon Web Services SDE-2 Backend interview questions
based on 2 ratings - Updated 18 Nov 2024
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SDE-2 Backend applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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screening followed by technical rounds focussed on DSA and leetcode problems. Mostly intermediate.
Some focus on my experience which was relevant with AWS
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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