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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Initial interview was all online. Could choose that or to video conference with interviewers.
- Two coding questions, total of 90 minutes to complete.
- System design questions.
- Work style questions.
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Question 1
Given a set of requirements and examples with test data, then code solution and run against the test data.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2021
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2 Amazon LP questions and 2 Leetcode style technical interview questions
Interviewer seemed more concerned with the technical questions than the LP questions
Didn't have the most efficient solution at first for the second lc question, however the interviewer was helpful and provided hints
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2020
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The process was very smooth, the coding test was on hacker rank with a medium and a hard problem. The HR person was very nice and explained the entire process nicely. The coding problems are on the harder side so prep accordingly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One was medium and the other was a graph based question which was difficult.