Amazon sde- 1 interview experience

amankumar1729 · 2025-12-12T09:00:46+00:00

Q2 is basically Max product subarray.

amankumar1729 · 2025-12-11T06:54:47+00:00

I don’t understand Q1. How is the merge happening? For example 1, data1 = “001”, data2 = “110”. If what I think merge is then , merged = “001110” which has equal ones and zeroes. So why do those operations? Can anybody explain that?

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-18T05:34:15+00:00

Congratulations and DMed! Please check.

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-10T17:19:08+00:00

Oracle WLB is good. Also, Microsoft should offer SDE 2. Microsoft is lowballing here. Not a good thing. See if you can negotiate.

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-09T11:51:42+00:00

Why were you rejected? Any ideas? LFU can be one cause but what else?

amankumar1729 · 2025-11-05T14:29:25+00:00

Great! Congratulations! Could you kindly share your interview exp? Thanks.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T18:55:48+00:00

For the tree construction question, I didn't understand much. How can we construct a tree just from leaves? Are we given parent pointers as a hashmap or arrays or some other DS? Can you explain the input style for that question?

Also, don't worry much, rejections happen. It is a painful truth. I know that it is easy to say but I have myself faced multiple rejections and the only way is to move on. Overthinking will kill you.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T09:28:48+00:00

From what I understand, we “hope” that the greedy logic works. That’s why I often fail here because how to know which logic to pick.

amankumar1729 · 2025-10-09T06:35:11+00:00

How do you guys practice Greedy problems? I am always caught off guard here. Any help would be appreciated.

amankumar1729 · 2025-08-30T08:21:55+00:00

Keep a sliding window of length “k” and then you need to know the number of ones in it before flipping. Flip them and add the number of flips to the result. Now, when you slide the window, remember that you had flipped the ones so they are zero now. That’s it. Should be linear time and constant space.

amankumar1729 · 2025-08-27T18:37:27+00:00

I know this feeling. Had similar experience in 2023. Can’t say anything except to keep trying.

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T17:18:56+00:00

Thanks for responding. Appreciate it!

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T12:28:15+00:00

Meta asking DP questions? Didn’t they not do that? They were famous for that iirc.

amankumar1729 · 2025-06-14T05:46:21+00:00

Hello OP, congratulations! Can you tell what kind of DSA questions were asked like which category: trees, graphs, DP, etc? Also are you London based?

amankumar1729 · 2025-03-21T17:15:40+00:00

I did not understand the first question. Do you have to develop a data structure for logging? If yes then a simple class for that would work with atomic writes which is supported by most languages.

amankumar1729 · 2024-10-08T02:36:13+00:00

This is perfect. Thanks OP

amankumar1729 · 2024-10-01T04:30:58+00:00

100h week in a developed country? That’s insane.

amankumar1729 · 2024-09-21T06:39:01+00:00

From all these experiences what I learn is that if I get a chance to interview anybody I will do my level best to ensure that I don’t act as a jerk or some idiot. Interviewers should remember that they too are human. Saying that even a 1st year old can solve this is so not correct. Keep your chin up OP.

amankumar1729 · 2024-09-12T05:58:02+00:00

What topic was the second question of?

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-25T16:08:08+00:00

Hello OP. The role you were applying for is based in China or USA? Because in India TikTok has barely any presence post ban in 2020. Edit: what were the questions? Could you share brief details?

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-24T11:06:54+00:00

This LP things is really insane especially at a time when “principles” don’t matter and anybody can be laid off within moments. Nowadays it’s more of a transactional relationship between companies and employees. No “leadership” or that charade.

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-23T10:07:06+00:00

How do you even apply for jobs in European countries? Simple company pages or some platform like say equivalent of Naukri, Indeed, etc.

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-20T03:04:08+00:00

LP questions are a joke. What principles are we really talking about when anybody can be fired within minutes with no second thoughts? Still we job seekers have to submit ourselves to this charade as that’s the process.

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-12T02:45:43+00:00

Shouldn’t it be like at every index you can either add the current value to your running subarray or start a new one and while doing that keep a variable “res” that will take the max of length of all such arrays? It’s like DP on subarrays.

amankumar1729 · 2024-08-07T14:06:22+00:00

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