It just ended in late March Amazon 2026 SDE Intern VO, after two rounds of overall interview, the feeling is actually quite obvious: the difficulty of this interview is not the question, but the "stable output".
Many people have the impression that Amazon is not difficult, but when you actually go to VO, you will find that it is more like a comprehensive inspection - BQ digging + coding details + on-the-spot rhythm, all must be online. Once one link is dropped, it can easily directly affect the results.
Round 1: Digging into resume + project BQ
The pace of the first round of interviews is actually quite standard, but the pressure is quite high.
The interviewer is an Indian girl. After a brief self-introduction at the beginning, she went directly into a resume deep dive, which lasted about 10 minutes, mainly focusing on the details of the projects you have done and the decision-making process.
What follows is a series of Behavioral Questions, but the overall atmosphere is relatively friendly, and the other person is obviously follow-up. If you answer successfully, they will nod and give feedback.
Core issues
- What’s the most complex project you’ve worked on? How did you weigh your options
- Ever had a project that went really wrong? What did you take away from it
- What would you do if you realized your approach wasn’t the best way forward
Round 2: Failure + Ownership + Coding Interview Analysis
The style of the second round of interviews has changed significantly compared to the first round. The overall focus is on the candidate's comprehensive ability - especially the way to deal with problems, the sense of initiative, and the core coding ability. The BQ part is in-depth compliance with the Leadership Principles (Leadership Principles) and has extremely high requirements for the candidate's structured expression.
BQ part
Different from the first round that focused on what you did, this round of BQ questions is more tricky. The focus turns to how you face the problem. It is no longer a simple list of experiences, but a deep exploration of the candidate's thinking mode, communication skills and responsibility, focusing on three core directions.
Core investigation direction
1. Failure experience: Rather than simply asking “what have you failed in?”, focus on your reflections on failures, response measures, and growth gained from failures, and avoid falling into the misunderstandings of “making excuses” or “understatement.”
2. Disagreement with manager/leader: Examine the candidate’s communication strategy when there are differences of opinion. Whether the candidate can adhere to reasonable views and respect the opinions of others without avoiding conflicts, and ultimately promote consensus on the issue instead of blindly obeying or being stubborn.
3. Ownership and promotion ability: Focus on judging whether the candidate has the awareness of "taking initiative" and whether he can proactively discover problems and promote the implementation of things instead of passively waiting for arrangements. The core is to examine "execution ability" and "responsibility".
Coding part: Concatenated Words
This round of coding questions examines the classic high-frequency question type - Concatenated Words, which is a variant of Word Break. The overall difficulty is medium, but there are many details. It is easy to fail the question for the first time due to time constraints or neglect of details. It will be more advantageous to brush the relevant question types in advance.
Core problem-solving ideas
The core logic of solving the problem revolves around "determining whether each word can be spliced by other words." The steps are clear and implementable, as follows:
1. Preprocessing: First put all words into a set (set), and use the query efficiency of set O(1) to quickly determine whether a certain substring is a given word.
2. Dynamic programming (DP) modeling: Each word is judged individually, and dp[i] is defined to indicate whether the first i characters of the word can be split into other words in the set.
3. DP initialization and state transfer: initialize dp[0] = true (indicating that the empty string can be split); then enumerate each segmentation point j (from 0 to word length-1). If dp[j] is true and the substring substring(j, i) exists in the set, it means that the first i characters can be split, that is, dp[i] = true.
There are two very critical details here: The first is that the word itself cannot be used to participate in splicing, so the current word needs to be removed from the set before judgment. The second is that it must be composed of at least two words, otherwise misjudgment will occur.
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