Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2022
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Interview consisted of 3 rounds: First round was a HackerRank Online Assessment. Second was a phone screen. Final was onsite with 4 different engineers. Interview timeline was fairly quick, completing it within about 2 weeks.
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Behavioral Questions: Heavily based on Amazon principles. Fairly straightforward. Technical Questions: One system design 2 LC mediums (graphs and recursion) An open-ended API design..
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Calcuta) in Aug 2022
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The offer was for their London location. The interviews were pretty easy and medium level DSA was there with lots of questions on leadership principles. You can crack it with basic DSA knowledge.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sídney) in Apr 2020
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1st round: Phone screen consisting of 30min leadership principles questions, and 30 minutes leetcode style questions. 2nd round: 3 interviews of the same format, and one interview with manager talking about a project I've worked on. This would be replaced with system design interview if this was for a higher level role. My interview was for SDEI (L4).
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Tell me about a time you had to perform duties that were outside your normal role expectations? And lots more similar leadership principle style questions