Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I faced one hard custom task about string manipulation tied to an exchange-rate style scenario, and another that was algorithmic and very implementation-oriented: merging two linked lists and then continuing with a merge-k linked list approach. The first time I saw it, I felt the clock and the difficulty together—still, I managed to pull through.

The earlier part felt a bit like an OA upgrade too: even when the overall assessment wasn’t impossibly long, it was hard enough that I leaned on heap and greedy method patterns to stay oriented. By the end, I could tell they were looking for the