Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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LeetCode Easy/Medium Questions. Got rejected although I solved the problem with the smallest time complexity. There were three stages with one being hackerrank, one being phone interview and one being onsite interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublín, Dublín) in Jan 2021
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The first recruiter reached out by email and within few days got an invitation for the coding challenge for initial screening. The first step was initial coding on Codility, The coding challenge had two questions. It is timed and got 2 hours to complete it.
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there were two questions one medium and one difficult
Long interview process with not a lot of communication throughout. Overall, very time consuming and it felt like the whole process did not have to take as long as it did.