Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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interviwer was very nice to me he acknowledged and mould me what he wants me for the companty and the ansers i gave were satisfacory for him.and after that hr interview started where the question were basically on y atttitude how will i pact in certain situation
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublín, Dublín) in Sep 2021
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The interview process started with an online coding assessment. The questions were based on easy-mid level Array/Problem Solving topics. Afterwards I had a phone interview, which took like 60 minutes. Finally i had a virtual interview with 4 different interviewers. One of them was fully about behavioral questions and one of them was about fully about Object Oriented Software Design.
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Question 1
Design an LRU Cache (OOP Design question)
Find the missing number in an array
Difference between Set/HashMap/List
Find if a cycle exists in a given LinkedList
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2020
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3 rounds of OA followed by a one hour final interview.
The 3 OAs came one after another and had to do with debugging, normal technical problem, and a workplace simulator