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SDE Interview Preparation

The document outlines key focus areas for SDE interview preparation, emphasizing the importance of coding and problem-solving skills, understanding data structures and algorithms, and the ability to design systems effectively. Candidates should be proficient in a programming language, optimize their code, and be prepared to discuss design choices and leadership principles through behavioral questions. Practicing these areas will help candidates demonstrate their technical and leadership capabilities during interviews.

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SDE Interview Preparation

The document outlines key focus areas for SDE interview preparation, emphasizing the importance of coding and problem-solving skills, understanding data structures and algorithms, and the ability to design systems effectively. Candidates should be proficient in a programming language, optimize their code, and be prepared to discuss design choices and leadership principles through behavioral questions. Practicing these areas will help candidates demonstrate their technical and leadership capabilities during interviews.

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SDE Interview Preparation Focus

Competency You should focus on! Example


Coding & Problem o Coding is important! You will be expected to write production quality Dynamic
Solving code and NOT pseudo code. programming,
o Optimize the code and check for edge cases, null cases, happy cases, etc. Iterative approach,
before you present the code Greedy solutions,
o Should be able to take into account run-time/space-time complexity Searching and Sorting
o Should be able to optimize the code, modular programming.
o Syntax, Return statements, Function declaration, Recursive code, Pointer
manipulation, scope of variables.

Data Structures & o Choose a programming language you are proficient with and practice Using effective Data
Algorithms working on fundamental data structures as list, set, map, tree and graph Structure (Arrays,
o Practice with sort, search and traversal algorithms and different LinkedList, Queues,
problem solving strategies like divide and conquer, dynamic Tree, Graph, etc.) to
programming, backtracking and recursion solve the coding
o You will need to reason about computational complexity for your problem.
solution so it is important to understand time and space complexity of
these algorithms.

Design (LLD / HLD) o Provide a detailed and efficient design of the system in consideration. Design a notification
o In most cases your design should contain a clean set of APIs, the entities system which send
and the sub components . email and SMS.
o Be prepared to come up with class level design (with design patterns)
and code of the critical section. Design Problem- Movie
o During the interview we not only look at the final design but how you booking System
reached there so please be vocal of trade-offs and assumptions
o Consider discussing alternate design choices you have considered
o Highlight important use cases
o Design material for reference.

Leadership Principles o A significant portion of each interview conversation will be dedicated to Tell me about a time
understanding how you’ve already been demonstrating Amazon when you went above
Leadership Principles in your own professional experiences. and beyond for a
o Leadership Principle questions are behavioural-based. They ask about customer. Why did you
past experiences and challenges you’ve faced, as well as how you’ve do it? What was the
handled them and what you learned from them. outcome?

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