My experience interviewing for Software engineering role with Amazon & Microsoft - 2019.

I have reached up to onsite stages interviewing with Amazon and Microsoft for software engineering roles.

Lesson learned.

0. Computer science fundamentals are very important to Silicon-Valley companies than been a pro in the X or Y framework

1. Practice makes perfection, perfection yield meaningful end goal(s).
Nearly all questions were copy and paste from LC [LeetCoce](with little modification).
Some problem focus on HashTable, Graph Algorithm, and others are subjected to real-life experience

2. I interviewed with the AWS team in Vancouver for SDE2 and AI Empowerment Team for MSFT.
Based on my own experience and the team I interviewed with,
Amazon interview process is far better and well organized than MSFT for the following reasons.

a.Hard screening process(You don't have the chance to for virtual interview with AWS team until you successfully pass the coding challenge with two scenarios (up to 90 min) unlike MSFT

b.AWS focus more on scalable algorithm/answers & core understanding of CS

c.Had my interview with two engineers for each stage with AWS, and one engineer for each stage with MSFT

d.AWS team focus more on coming up with an efficient and concise solution, while MSFT focuses on giving
extensive justification for anything that comes out from your mouth and not just coming up with the right solution.

e.AWS has great interviewing tools/resources than MSFT(Perhaps based on the team I interviewed with)
My interview with Amazon was conducted using Amazon Chime, and Team for Microsoft.

3. It's good to know that thing called HashTable, but not all problem requires HashTable

4. Know what you do, and do what you know. In my own opinion, CTCI(Cracking The Coding Interview) book is not
helpful and reliable to pass SWE II or SDE2 interview.

5. Hard work with real dedication works and experience matters.

If you really want to become a software engineer, you must have proper and adequate computer science fundamentals.

Hope you find this helpful.
Useful resources: https://www.algoexpert.io
https://leetcode.com/

Thanks for this, boss..

Hard work pays! Have a passion for what you do and motivate yourself.

takeitsimple:
My experience interviewing for Software engineering role with Amazon & Microsoft - 2019.

I have reached up to onsite stages interviewing with Amazon and Microsoft for software engineering roles.

Lesson learned.

0. Computer science fundamentals are very important to Silicon-Valley companies than been a pro in the X or Y framework

1. Practice makes perfection, perfection yield meaningful end goal(s).
Nearly all questions were copy and paste from LC [LeetCoce](with little modification).
Some problem focus on HashTable, Graph Algorithm, and others are subjected to real-life experience

2. I interviewed with the AWS team in Vancouver for SDE2 and AI Empowerment Team for MSFT.
Based on my own experience and the team I interviewed with,
Amazon interview process is far better and well organized than MSFT for the following reasons.

a.Hard screening process(You don't have the chance to for virtual interview with AWS team until you successfully pass the coding challenge with two scenarios (up to 90 min) unlike MSFT

b.AWS focus more on scalable algorithm/answers & core understanding of CS

c.Had my interview with two engineers for each stage with AWS, and one engineer for each stage with MSFT

d.AWS team focus more on coming up with an efficient and concise solution, while MSFT focuses on giving
extensive justification for anything that comes out from your mouth and not just coming up with the right solution.

e.AWS has great interviewing tools/resources than MSFT(Perhaps based on the team I interviewed with)
My interview with Amazon was conducted using Amazon Chime, and Team for Microsoft.

3. It's good to know that thing called HashTable, but not all problem requires HashTable

4. Know what you do, and do what you know. In my own opinion, CTCI(Cracking The Coding Interview) book is not
helpful and reliable to pass SWE II or SDE2 interview.

5. Hard work with real dedication works and experience matters.

If you really want to become a software engineer, you must have proper and adequate computer science fundamentals.

Hope you find this helpful.
Useful resources: https://www.algoexpert.io
https://leetcode.com/

bro were you successful

takeitsimple:
My experience interviewing for Software engineering role with Amazon & Microsoft - 2019.

I have reached up to onsite stages interviewing with Amazon and Microsoft for software engineering roles.

Lesson learned.

0. Computer science fundamentals are very important to Silicon-Valley companies than been a pro in the X or Y framework

1. Practice makes perfection, perfection yield meaningful end goal(s).
Nearly all questions were copy and paste from LC [LeetCoce](with little modification).
Some problem focus on HashTable, Graph Algorithm, and others are subjected to real-life experience

2. I interviewed with the AWS team in Vancouver for SDE2 and AI Empowerment Team for MSFT.
Based on my own experience and the team I interviewed with,
Amazon interview process is far better and well organized than MSFT for the following reasons.

a.Hard screening process(You don't have the chance to for virtual interview with AWS team until you successfully pass the coding challenge with two scenarios (up to 90 min) unlike MSFT

b.AWS focus more on scalable algorithm/answers & core understanding of CS

c.Had my interview with two engineers for each stage with AWS, and one engineer for each stage with MSFT

d.AWS team focus more on coming up with an efficient and concise solution, while MSFT focuses on giving
extensive justification for anything that comes out from your mouth and not just coming up with the right solution.

e.AWS has great interviewing tools/resources than MSFT(Perhaps based on the team I interviewed with)
My interview with Amazon was conducted using Amazon Chime, and Team for Microsoft.

3. It's good to know that thing called HashTable, but not all problem requires HashTable

4. Know what you do, and do what you know. In my own opinion, CTCI(Cracking The Coding Interview) book is not
helpful and reliable to pass SWE II or SDE2 interview.

5. Hard work with real dedication works and experience matters.

If you really want to become a software engineer, you must have proper and adequate computer science fundamentals.

Hope you find this helpful.
Useful resources: https://www.algoexpert.io
https://leetcode.com/

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Savagethe21st:
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takeitsimple:


Yes, you can.

how were the Fang interviews you wrote, and was any successful