Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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General Coding Assesment. After you complete that you need to do another debugging assesment and then the final part which is a 2 hour activity putting you under pressure like a day in a normal job
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2021
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I applied for several positions at Amazon Worldwide. From there my resume got selected for SDE 1 at Amazon Karnataka and SDE 2 Ireland.
They sent me assessment link on hackerrank to complete within a week. The online assessment round had 2 parts -
1. 2 Coding questions and respective solution approach and complexity for 105 minutes.
2. Work time flow questions - mostly work related behavioural questions for 15 minutes.
I completed first coding question and passed all test cases. Also I nicely wrote solution approach and complexity analysis.
Second coding question, I passed 12 out 17 test cases and wrote solution approach and complexity in simple way. Because I had less time at the end so I couldn’t enhance second question to pass all test case.
Right after an hour, I got mail that they will not move me forward for this role. Hence I was rejected.
I thought passing one question completely and another more than 50% should be accepted to move to next round but I don’t know if they want a candidate to solve all questions and pass all test cases for all questions.
The above explanation is both for Karnataka and Ireland location online assessment in Amazon.
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Upgrade Junction Box - Return a sorted list of junction boxes. This question is present in Leetcode as Reorder Data In Logs File.
Optimal Route Pairs - Find the optimal list of route pairs that sums to or less than given maximum distance allowed to travel. There are pairs of forward and backward routes and a maximum distance that an airplane can travel. We need to find pair of forward and backward route whose distance sum is <= maximum distance an airplane can travel.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2021
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There are 2 OA before the final interview. The first is the coding part. And the second is sort of behavior question part which is entirely based on their leadership principle.
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Question 1
They will ask you how do you choose between the quality of work vs the extra time you put