Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Feb 2021
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Online application ->
1 hour phone interview (technical questions on data structures and algorithms and OOP) -> on-site interview (3x1 hour technical interviews similar to phone interview with different interviewers and 2 behavioural interviews)
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublín, Dublín) in Apr 2021
Interview
Was approached by a recruiter on LinkedIn, then did an online programming test, then a phone interview. The whole processo took around 2 months. Every e-mail is sent by a different person. They provide no feedback at all in any of the steps. The phone interview is very scripted, you can easily find the possible behavioral questions online. There was also a coding assignment during the interview, it was a very simple string search problem, they ask a lot about time and space complexity.
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Question 1
Comment about a time where you took more responsibility.
Comment about a time where you failed a commitment.
First, self-introduction and the interviewer will give you some information on the position. Then coding. And the interviewer will give you follow-up questions. After that, you will be required to ask some bonus questions.
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Question 1
lc 128 + OOP(design a util class to search file recursively, make sure the extendability, using abstract base class and depth-first search)