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Software Engineer-1 Interview Experience - Hyderābād, Telangana

January 1, 2021
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online Assessment (OA)

Platform: Amazon’s internal coding portal / Hackerrank

Questions:

  • Array manipulation (prefix sums or sliding window)
  • String or hashmap-based problem (e.g. find first unique character)
  • Debugging question (identify and fix logical errors)

Difficulty: Medium–Hard

Focus Areas: Data Structures (Arrays, Strings, HashMaps), Time Complexity, Edge Cases

Technical Round 1 (Data Structures & Algorithms)

Duration: 60 minutes

Questions Asked:

  • Implement LRU Cache using LinkedHashMap or custom DLL + HashMap.
  • Solve “Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters” (Two Pointer / Sliding Window approach).

Follow-up: Discuss time and space complexities.

Additional Discussion:

  • Code optimization
  • Handling large input cases and memory efficiency

Technical Round 2 (System Design + Problem Solving)

Duration: 60 minutes

Questions:

  • Design a URL Shortener / BookMyShow Ticket Booking System (Low-Level Design)
  • Implement core classes and relationships
  • Asked about OOP principles, Design Patterns (Singleton, Factory)

Follow-ups:

  • How would you scale the system?

Questions

Leadership Principles, DSA, LLD, HLD, Project discussion

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