I applied online. The process took 1 day.

Applied through LinkedIn. The application was viewed in few days. Got a call from the recruitment team for the drive. The recruiter was courteous enough to check my availability on the date of interview. The interview was scheduled. Round 1: Hackerrank Online Test [Only coding] - Cleared Round 2: F2F technical interview on coding, core java and OOPS (or any OO language of your choice) - Lost Get things straight - Take your laptop with you, else struggle with the connection issues or password issues with the given laptop at the interview. IT team would never bother (at least to the set of people who had issues in my room.) - It's gonna be a whole long day.

They will never start the interview soon. - If you're asked to leave for the day, do not bother to seek's HR's confirmation on your result. You'd already lost bud! - Give direct answers are prepared to lose. - These people knew that the crowd who lose amazon interviews would long for entering Freshdesk. Prepare the hardest. With insane prep, you can laugh or yawn at the interview questions. It's not some DP or DS magic that they're expecting. 5. If at all you've reached the negotiation point, be real and be ruthless, because they're not worth your buyer's remorse.

Finally, remember that you're going to face few arrogant set of people who believe (not think) that they eat code rainbows day in day out at Chennai. Just crack this interview for the soul satisfaction. Even if you get the offer, rethink twice or thrice to quit your current organization. End of the day, if you still want this; enter the org as a rock star else never think about it. These words are not the fruit of my jealousy, it is the fruit of my reflection after knowing the face of the booming startup at Chennai.

Round 1 was a Hacker round featuring problems to balance parentheses and find the first non-repeated character in a given string.

1. How do you compare the equality of the Object in java?

2. Given a deck of cards where the number and type are the properties of individual cards; find the duplicate card inserted in the given deck.