Online Assessment (OA)
Questions:
Passed all test cases for one and 14/15 test cases for the other.
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Phone Screen
Questions:
- LP question (specific question not provided).
- DSA question: Number of Subsequences That Satisfy the Given Sum Condition
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Round 1
Questions:
- DSA problem: Find max subarray sum such that the start and end element of the subarray are equal.
Candidate's Approach
- Initially provided a brute-force solution.
- Attempted to optimize the brute-force solution but struggled and pivoted to a dynamic programming (DP) approach too late.
- Gave the logic for the DP solution but could not code it due to time constraints.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Round 2
Questions:
- 2 LP questions (specific questions not provided).
- DSA question based on trees (specific question not provided).
- DSA question: Combine numbers in an array to minimize the score.
Candidate's Approach
- Explained the solution for the tree question and coded it successfully.
- Struggled with the array question initially but received hints from the interviewer, which helped in arriving at the solution.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Round 3
Questions:
- Design a proximity service (specific details not provided).
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Round 4
Questions:
- LP question (specific question not provided).
- Design a board game (specific details not provided).
Candidate's Approach
No approach provided.
Interviewer's Feedback
No feedback provided.
Additional Notes
- After the third round, the interviewer mentioned scheduling one more round focusing on LP questions due to their absence in previous rounds.
- Received an automated email stating that the candidate is no longer under consideration for the position, and the job posting has been removed from the portal.
- Inquired about the cooldown period for reapplying to Amazon.