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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I received a link to an online challenge and had 2 hours to solve the problems. There were 2 problems similar to leetcode. A few days after the interview I received an email that I was not selected.
Easy, 3 hackerank like stages and one 1:1 interview. The interviewer was very nice and explained the role relatively well. The question was related to a flood filling algorithm where you start at a particular pixel and you have to fill the pixels close in value inside the grid.
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My previous experience as well as a flood filling question.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2020
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Campus hire: first 2 rounds OA, then 4 rounds virtual onsite. OA are all high frequency problems. 1 round is BFS algorithmic problem with follow-up about C++ STL and 3 rounds are various OOD problems.