here’s a question that was recently asked by amazon. The position was for SDE II, L-5, United States. The question was in two parts. You are given a string and a wordlist. The string is a combination of words from the word list. Your goal is to
Find the words that were used to create the string
For each of those words, find the next closest word to it from the wordlist (Minimal edits)
The interview process was laid out extremely well. The first step was an OA and from that you were then selected for an interview. The interview consisted of behavioral and technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How one of the company values has been applied into my life.
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2022
Interview
Received online assessment a month and a half after initial application with referral, then received invitation for final interview a few weeks later. Online assessment consisted of two leetcode-style problems while final interview had 2 behavioral fit questions, 4-5 data structures questions, and 1 leetcode style problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about a time I helped one of my team members