Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2021
Interview
Very exciting. Recruiters were very reachable and scheduling the was quick. Interviews were scheduled back to back. Interviewers were pleasant and were all at different points in their careers. Each were with the company between 1 and 4 years.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about something that was difficult and how it was overcome.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2021
Interview
I interviewed for SDE-1 for Prime Video, Seattle. Overall, the interview experience was pretty good. The amazon interviewers are really well versed on how to conduct interviews.
Each interviewer started with LPs and then asked technical questions. These LPs took 30-35 mins for each round, which I think meant that they focus on LPs a lot.
The first two interviewers asked OOPs problem, whereas coding question was asked in the other two.
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Question 1
Q: Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond.
Q: Tell me about a time you had a conflict
Q: Tell me about a time when you felt you did not have enough Subject Matter Expertise and how did you go about it
Q. Design an algorithm to efficiently place amazon packages in the lockers
Q. Design a library catalog system
Q. Gather logs and append logs to a file sorted by start time
Q. Find major version conflicts during package building
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2021
Interview
I got one Online assessment. If we pass that then one
On-site interview - 4 rounds. Each round will last for an hour. Behavioral and coding questions. Behavioral based on LPs available online.