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How I cracked my SDE Interview at Amazon and how you can too.

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How to get SDE job opportunity at Amazon ? What is the interview process  at Amazon ? What should I prepare for Amazon interviews? Should I do competitive programming or should I focus on creating projects ? If these are some of the questions that you have in mind, then this post is a must read. Hi there, I am Software development engineer at Amazon and Ex-Samsung. I have been asked these questions multiple times in my webinars or on linkedIn, so I thought to put it in a post so that it benefits all my readers.  In order to make whatever I suggest relatable, I will be relating all the suggestions to  my own preparation and interview experience at Amazon.  Before I begin, I will ask you to remember this, no matter for what company you are preparing for, you need to have knowledge of data structures and algorithms. I am talking about big companies.Also, I can only provide you path to crack the interviews, however it will depend on you to walk down that path and achieve success.  Intervie

Beginning with competitive programming series : Chapter 1

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Once you have an idea of coding in a particular language, it's time for you to begin your coding journey.✈️ I will try to write all the posts as a guide  answering some or all of these  questions: Why do you need to study a topic? Where can you study a topic? What you should study first? How much time is worth spending on a topic? Moreover, I would suggest books/posts/videos along the way, which will help you in covering all of the topics in detail not just from competitive programming purpose. Before I begin, I will suggest some books which I have gone through for competitive coding and technical interviews, so if you want to read any of the chapters in detail please refer these books. Coding Interview Questions   by  Narasimha Karumanchi Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS Cracking the coding interview  by  Gayle Laakmann McDowell