Interesting DSA questions but leadership principles need reevaluation
Interesting DSA questions but leadership principles need reevaluation
The DSA questions were interesting. Q1 was on graphs. Q2 was a Trie-related question for string matching.
For HLD, the topic was a weather reporting app backend.
There was leadership principle emphasis. I feel Amazon should consider removing these questions because a lot of times the answers to these questions are looked up on the internet for scenarios and mugged up instead of answering them with real work experience.
And no one probably would have gone through those scenarios in their day-to-day work.
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