Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process went very smooth and after I finished both my OA1 and OA2, there is this final one round virtual onsite which just went through my solutions to OA1.
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Question 1
There are no interview questions. It's just a review of the OA I did.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jan 2020
Interview
The interview consisted of two coding questions. The difficulty of the first question was easy, while the second one was medium. Need to use hashmap for the first one and 2d array for the second one.
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Question 1
Given an array, need to perform binary search.
Given points in 2d array, find distances with shortest path.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Oct 2021
Interview
2 online assessment; first was coding challenge with 2 questions (easy-medium difficulty), second was simulation to analyze interpersonal and job environment skills. Afterwards only one 30-min final round interview. Then offer was received.
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