Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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After applying, I immediately got an email notification to complete an online coding assessment within a week. The coding assessment consisted of four questions, two of which were for coding, while the other two were about the runtimes of the programs written and my process of when I was completing them.
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The first question was to sort packages based on different version tags and different package names. I don't remember the other question
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
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First I got an email with an invitation to participate in an online coding challenge. After that i was contacted to make an online interview with a part behavioral and a part technical
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On the online challenge one was an easy array question and the other was a path finding question. On the call the question was a binary tree problem.
Passed the OA and got the comfirmation email for the final VO, then after 2 weeks I was notified the VO was cancelled due to limited headcounts, and the HR helps transfer my interview to another team and got another VO, then two days after confirming the new VO date, it was cancelled again, due to limitied availablies as well.
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In OA, there was a priority queue and an array question.