Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Applied online, received the first assessment about 10 days later, and the second and third assessments right after completing the previous one. Scheduled 3 final round interviews a few days after the third assessment.
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First assessment was 7 debugging questions in 20 minutes
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2020
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There was one phone interview and then four virtual "onsite" interviews. During the virtual onsite, there was 3 technical interviews and 1 behavioral interview. One interviewer was 15 minutes late and talked about things that were too personal for an interview.
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What is one situation where you disagreed with your manager?
I did three assessments and then did a video interview online. The video review was fairly straightforward, and the engineer doing it was very nice. He was very numbers focused, and seemed to appreciate stats over stories when I speaking.