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Amazon offers a best CTC + Challenging Work to freshers and working professionals for their SDE Role! In October , multiple working professionals and 2025-2026 grads underwent Amazon OA to get shortlisted for SDE Role. Amazon is one of those companies which asks interesting and challenging 𝐃𝐒𝐀 questions to their candidates in OA rounds; this year they asked total of 15 different OA problems and all of them are a super hard nut to crack - mostly revolving around high level Dynamic Programming + Hashing + Bit Manipulation + Observation :) Generally students face issue to crack OA rounds of top-tech companies because of their relying on standard DSA sheets and only doing 200-500 easy standard DSA problems - to tackle OA - you need to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills and be ready to tackle new hard and unseen DSA questions! Amazon SDE OA Problem asked on Nov 5 -> Name of the Problem - 𝐁𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦. Crux of the problem :- In the image below. Link to video solution - In the comment List of all Amazon OA asked in 2024 in comments below. We solve such problems in our FAANG OA + DSA Training - Master-class on weekend. Link to our FAANG OA + DSA Training group in the comments. #kumark #coding

Amazon offers a best CTC + Challenging Work to freshers and working professionals for their SDE Role! In October , multiple working professionals and 2025-2026 grads underwent Amazon OA to get shortlisted for SDE Role. Amazon is one of those companies which asks interesting and challenging 𝐃𝐒𝐀 questions to their candidates in OA rounds; this year they asked total of 15 different OA problems and all of them are a super hard nut to crack - mostly revolving around high level Dynamic Programming + Hashing + Bit Manipulation + Observation :) Generally students face issue to crack OA rounds of top-tech companies because of their relying on standard DSA sheets and only doing 200-500 easy standard DSA problems - to tackle OA - you need to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills and be ready to tackle new hard and unseen DSA questions! Amazon SDE OA Problem asked on Oct 28 -> Name of the Problem - 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦. Crux of the problem :- In the image below. List of all Amazon OA asked in 2024 in comments below. We will solve this problem in our FAANG OA + DSA Training - Master-class on weekend. Link to our FAANG OA + DSA Training group in the comments. #kumark #coding

Amazon offers a best CTC + Challenging Work to freshers and working professionals for their SDE Role! In October , multiple working professionals and 2025-2026 grads underwent Amazon OA to get shortlisted for SDE Role. Amazon is one of those companies which asks interesting and challenging 𝐃𝐒𝐀 questions to their candidates in OA rounds; this year they asked total of 15 different OA problems and all of them are a super hard nut to crack - mostly revolving around high level Dynamic Programming + Hashing + Bit Manipulation + Observation :) Generally students face issue to crack OA rounds of top-tech companies because of their relying on standard DSA sheets and only doing 200-500 easy standard DSA problems - to tackle OA - you need to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills and be ready to tackle new hard and unseen DSA questions! Amazon SDE OA Problem asked on Nov 8 - Name of the Problem - 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦. Crux of the problem :- In the image below. Link to video solution - In the comment List of all Amazon OA asked in 2024 in comments below. We will solve this problem today in our FAANG OA + DSA Training - Master-class on weekend. Link to our FAANG OA + DSA Training group in the comments. #kumark #coding #amazon #oa #faang

My Amazon SDE Interview experience for the reference of all freshers applying: (FYI, Amazon just dropped their SDE-1 India University Graduate openings!) ⏳ The process: 1️⃣ 1 Online Assessment 2️⃣ 2 Coding rounds 3️⃣ 1 Coding + Leadership Principles round 💻 The interviews: 1️⃣ OA round: 7 basic code-debugging MCQs 2 DSA questions: - LC 2265. Nodes Equal to Average of Subtree - LC 68. Text Justification 1 (very lengthy) behavioral question form - Solved all 7 debugging questions correctly. - Solved first DSA problem in 10 mins. - Partially solved second problem, failing few test cases. - This round went average. But got the interview invite. Being fast in contests and debugging would help in this round. 2️⃣ Coding round 1: A BFS-based LeetCode hard problem. - Quickly coded a BFS + hashmap solution. - Interviewer had cross-questions but appeared satisfied overall. If you can solve LC 127. Word Ladder, you’d be fine. 3️⃣ Coding round 2: > Q1: Nodes at distance K in a binary tree - Used BFS after creating parent pointers using HashMap. > Q2: Connect ropes with minimum cost - Implemented a greedy solution using a priority queue. - Interviewer liked my speed but gave another problem. > Q3: Max steps with reduced m - Gave O(n) solution, then optimized using binary search to O(log n) and later to O(log(sqrt(m))). Overall, pleasant interview with optimized solutions. All of the above problems: - LC 863. All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree - GFG. Connect n ropes with minimum cost - Problem 3 not on the internet. Here’s a playground for it - https://lnkd.in/gsg2Pnmp 4️⃣ Coding + Managerial round: - LC Hard; Smallest substring in ’s’ containing ’t’ as subsequence - Came up with a sliding window approach. - Took 30+ min to explain and code the approach. - Interviewer was satisfied with my approach, but couldn’t finish coding completely. - Overall, explained the concept but could have implemented faster. If you have done LC 76. Minimum Window Substring, you got this one. Behavioral Questions: [1] Internship Discussion: - Day-to-day responsibilities? - Technologies you worked with, and why? - Any accomplishments or key learnings? [2] Amazon Leadership Principles: - Time when you went above and beyond to meet a customer’s needs? (Customer Obsession) - Time when you had to make a quick decision with limited information? (Bias for Action) Decent answers in behavioral round as I had prepped for similar questions. 🎯 Result: My interview result was positive and a few weeks later, I got the life-altering SDE-1 offer from Amazon! 🧡💛🖤 📚 Tips for successful interviews @ Amazon: - Amazon is known to repeat problems. Double down on LC Amazon tagged questions. - Practice medium-hard: Revise your graphs, trees, and DP. Super common for Amazon. - Prepare for Leadership Principles: Write answers highlighting at least few of the 16 LPs, using STAR method. And connect them with your experiences. Good luck to the freshers applying!! 🌻

Hello Connections 👋 My Yesterday's Amazon Online Assessment Experience for SDE-1 Fresher (Off-campus) 🚀 Feeling a mix of excitement and anticipation. 💪 After 28 days of consistent LeetCode practice as part of my 90 Days of DSA and Development challenge, I’m proud to have tackled the Amazon OA. How did I get here? 👇 ⭐ Serendipitous Discovery: I stumbled upon a few fresher openings on the Amazon job portal and decided to take a shot. ⭐ The Power of Networking: I reached out to 250+ Amazonians, seeking referrals. A huge shoutout to Nishant Jain and Raghu Raj Rai for their invaluable support and for referring me to roles that align with my profile. ⭐ Resume Revamp: With the help of Overleaf, I optimized my resume to boost its ATS score from 63% to 94%. ⭐ The Referral Advantage: A strong referral and a high ATS score significantly increased my chances of getting the OA link. ⭐ Special Thanks to Sakshi Jinnewar for being a major part of my learning process. It’s almost 1 year that we’ve been coding together. ⭐ OA Experience: The OA consisted of two coding questions. I was able to clear all test cases for the first and 9/15 for the second. Now, I’m eagerly awaiting the results. Fingers crossed! 🤞 #Amazon #OnlineAssessment #DSA #LeetCode #SoftwareEngineer #JobSearch #TechCareer #Hiring #Referral #ResumeTips #JobHunt

Amazon is hiring SDE interns. I'm sharing my interview experience so that it'll help students.😀 Role: SDE 6M Intern Mode: Offcampus(Amazon WOW) 🔆 Round 0: Online Assessment on Mettl - 90 mins 🔘 1 DSA problem of Hashmaps and maths(medium) 🔘 MCQs of CS fundamentals 🔆 Round 1: Online Assessment on Hackerrank - 70 mins 🔘 Variation of Phone keyboard problem (medium) 🔘 Greedy problem related to distance (medium) 🔆 Round 2: Technical Interview - 1 hour It was an online interview. The interviewer gave her intro first then asked mine. I gave her my intro and explained my projects. She asked detailed questions on the tech stack of projects. In remaining 45 mins, 2 coding questions were asked. 🔘 Max path sum with obstacles (2D DP (Hard): I told the recursion approach and then it's time and space complexity. Interviewer told me to optimise it. As I was not knowing DP that time, I could do only memoization. 🔘 Bottom view of BT(Medium): Interviewer only asked the approach for this problem as only 12 mins were left. I explained the approach, it's TC and SC. And then did dry run on 2 testcases. Overall the interview went well. I waited for 3 months to get result hoping for an offer but Amazon paused the hiring. Nevertheless I gained really good experience and learnings. That helped me to get another offer. ❗️edit: They didn't reject me due to my BCA degree, I reached till final round. Even when I told the interviewer about BCA during the intro, she didn't show any objections. I think companies don't discriminate students on the basis of degree if we've enough skills. PS: This is not my recent experience. I applied for this role in 2022, during my second year. I saw so many posts of students getting test link for the same role so thought to share my experience😄 #amazon #interview #experience #sde #intern #dsa #coding #bca #btech #cse

Amazon SDE Intern 2025 Interview Experience I recently had the incredible opportunity to interview for the Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern 2025 role at Amazon after successfully clearing the OA. Here are the details of the process: 1️⃣ 1 coding question +40 MCQ 2️⃣ 2 coding question  3️⃣ Interview Coding Question: The problem was related to graph and tree-based algorithms with an easy to medium level of difficulty. 40 MCQs: These were centered on CS fundamentals, including topics like: 💠 Linux commands. 💠 Data structures and algorithms. 💠 Networking concepts. 💠 Software testing methodologies. 💠 Pseudo code analysis. The interview : It consisted of two medium level DSA-focused questions related to priority queue and hashmap where the primary evaluation was on my problem-solving approach and how I structured my solutions. I had approximately 50 minutes to solve both of them. The interviewer focused on my approach to problem-solving, how I structured my solutions and the clarity of my explanations. The interviewer also asked me about a project I had mentioned in my resume. Reflections: Although I didn’t make it through to the next stage, but I am grateful to be the part of the process at a company like Amazon. Each step of this journey has strengthened my resolve to keep learning and improving. 💪 To everyone preparing for similar opportunities: 1. Never doubt yourself (which I did because I was nervous). 2. Keep working on your problem solving skills ,especially on data structures and algorithms. 3. Practice solving problems as if you are explaining your approach to someone else. 4. Keep calm and give your best This was a memorable experience, and I’m motivated to come back even stronger next time #Amazon #SDEIntern2025 #InterviewExperience #DSA

Flipkart Grid 6.0 hiring!! (2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 grads) 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝: 1) SDE 1 (CTC: 32 LPA) 2) SDE Intern (Stipend: 1 Lakh per month) 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞: 1) Open to students pursuing B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/M.S or related Engineering Programs across ALL Engineering Colleges in India (Batch 2025,2026, 2027 & 2028) 2) Team size: 1-3 members 3) Cross campus team are allowed 4) Cross specialization teams are also allowed Apply Link in Comments Ravinder Singh CareerHelp.AI (formerly Career Guidance and Jobs)

When in doubt - pivot. 2016: graduated with engineering degree 2016-2017: minimum wage, retail jobs 2017: quit 2018: $0 - pivot to IT 2018: $40k - new IT role 2019: $50k - raise 2019: quit again 2019: $14/hr - training program (SDE) 2020: $40k - contract, SDE 2021: $45k-raise 2022: $80k - job hop, full time SDE 2023: $125k - job hop, senior SDE 2024: $135k - raise That's someone else's progress (verified) I'm sharing it because it's proof that you don't have to stay put. Pivot and gain. Staying loyal will cost you £££££

Getting stuck in DSA, and feeling to give up?? See, you need to have a very clear DSA roadmap and though process. 📌Start with understanding theory of the data structure and algorithm. 📌Understand its time and space complexity, why use in the first place?? 📌Break that perticular DSA into patterns. Your mind needs that. 📌Start with easy problems from leetcode, and then gradually move to tougher problems. Please don't jump. 📌Once you come up with a solution, don't forget to explore other solutions also, from leetcode discuss section or gfg articles. 📌And have patience, its must. What's your opinion? How did you tackle this problem? . . And job hiring for today👇 Company Name : Flipkart Role : SDE-1 Batch : 2023 passouts Expected CTC : 31 LPA Apply Link in comments. Paste your resume and email id in comments. I request employees and Hiring managers from Flipkart, to review the resumes for referrals. #hiring #coding #jobs #flipkart #programming #mentorship