Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2018
Interview
Online assessment that included a coding exercise. Then a technical phone call was scheduled, during the call there were many technical questions and also a coding challenge and an explanation of the implementation.
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Question 1
How would you write a garbage collection algorithm for Java?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2021
Interview
I was asked 2 behavioral questions followed by 1 medium coding question. The interviewer asked a few relevant questions during the behavioral phase and took notes. The rest of the coding part was pretty interactive. I described my initial thought process but was stopped and asked a lot of puzzling questions by the interviewer as we advanced which was uncomfortable.
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Question 1
It was a question regarding package shipping order.
The first stage after submitting is the online assessment which is then followed by interview/s.
The online Assessment consists of a debugging challenge, coding challenge, workstyle assessment and SDE work simulation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code Debugging challenge - 7 questions, 20 mins
Coding Challenge - 2 questions
Workstyles assessment
SDE work simulation