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
Online assessment is composed of 3 parts and involves coding problems (easy-medium leetcode type problems) and a simulated work day. For final round, there were 3 interviews with different people, each one was 45 minutes. Two or three behavioural questions followed by a live coding question.
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Question 1
Describe a time you did something that made you uncomfortable?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Ïnt) in Oct 2020
Interview
there was mcq test and coding round then all the shortlisted candidates appear for 1:1 interview and questions asked were on data structure and competetive programming.
overall process may take upto week. and all the panelist were very friendly.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Very well organized and thorough. I was contacted by a recruiter and given a detailed explanation of the process and expectations. The actual interviews were also challenging, but also engaging and fair.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you handle a hostile customer interaction?