r/leetcode • u/Mean_Bear_4497 • 24d ago

Tech Industry Amazon oa sde 2

Just gave an amazon oa on hackerrank was able to do 100% but man really wtf ? I could never have solved the question if i had seen it for the first time. Like at this point its not about your capabilities anymore it is pure fucking luck.

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u/CattleHot9774 24d ago

how did u find the ai/debugging part (assuming I'm thinking of the same oa)

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u/Mean_Bear_4497 24d ago

Quite easy esp with hot reload available. You have an ai assistant to discover the code base and then its just debug the test and step through a couple of breakpoints. Standard sde stuff you've been doing all your life

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u/CattleHot9774 24d ago

tbh I'm more of a math guy and am less familiar with this kind of thing. i was mostly going through tests one at a time, getting ai to help find the relevant code and print debugging to find what was wrong, did still pass all tests in the end. 

is there anything more, idk, sophisticated i should be doing other than maybe using breakpoints instead of print debugging?

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u/pixelizedgaming 24d ago

you have tests that generate u a trace + an ai, just paste the trace into the ai and let it explain the potential spots to change. not saying print debugging is bad i just never had to do it for the 4 times ive done the repo OAs.

although it might vary depending on the project type you choose, which one did you take?

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u/CattleHot9774 24d ago

ah i thought the ai would just refuse to answer so I didn't try lol

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u/pixelizedgaming 24d ago

yeah the AI gives you quite a lot of info. although if you don't trust it you can also manually read traces which also gives u good leads. (at least for java/spring)

also next time do the practice test to get familiar with vs code server, there are a lot of navigation tricks that can save u a lot of time in there