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 an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2020
Interview
45 minutes interview. One technical question and one to two behavior question. First is self introduction. Then usually behavior question comes first, while I did technical question first. The number of Technical questions may be two or three depending on time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you were not able to meet a commitment.
it was tough and they emphasized more on coding part so try to prepare data structures and algorithms.if you deserve it you will be selected but it is not tough to get in amazon.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2020
Interview
First I completed an online assessment and it included 2 algorithm questions and had a time limit of 2 hours.
Then I attended a phone screen interview and it took 1 hour. It was 30 mins behavioral questions and 30mins one algorithm question.
Then I am invited for an on-site interview. It consisted on 4 interviews with different software engineers. Each interview took 1 hour and I was asked 30mins behavioral questions and 1 algorithm question in each of them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cannot disclose the questions because of the non disclosure agreement but all of them were at a level of leetcode medium questions.