Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2021
Interview
There was a Coding Assessment.
After that a Behavioral Assessment.
Lastly, a Behavioral and Technical Interview.
Amazon have an interesting and good process to choose their employees.
Everything was prepared well and I had no issues during those processes.
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Question 1
How did I deal with a situation where I had problems solving a certain exercise?
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Kānpur, Uttar Pradesh) in Dec 2021
Interview
My interview started around 4 AM IST since it was a campus hiring process.
2 Technical rounds and 1 Technical cum HR. (HR guy was from Singapore, and apparently he was proficient enough to evaluate you, though he claimed he wasn't!)
Unlike some other techie Development based SDE interviews, they took the standard approach of evaluating through DSA proficiency.
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5 Coding questions were asked.
2 in Round 1 and 3 in Round 2. All were of easy/medium difficulty.
One other question during the technical interview was to list down 2 instances of coming up with a non-trivial solutions during Technical Projects/Internships.
The HR round was basically to analyse the approach one opts for during Tech blocks. Seemed trivial. For e.g. - Tell me about a risk you took during any endeavour, where you had the option of not taking it but you went ahead with it.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Las Vegas, NV) in Dec 2021
Interview
Was given a four part online assessment. Longest was the first part, with two coding problems on the HackerRank platform.
Debugging was a real problem for the larger dataset problems. There was some piping error and HackerRank doesn't allow you to see the output for a lot of the test cases.
Then there were also some surprising questions regarding non-relational databases that I was not expecting.
One thing that's really relevant to be familiar with is Amazon's core principals. Workplace habit questions seemed to be very much based on this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sum the difference of the min and max of all consecutive ints in all possible sub-arrays possible in master array.