Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The online assessment was conducted online on a platform called AMCAT. After the online assessment, people will be shortlisted on a idiotic criteria. Then there will be 2 technical rounds maybe up to 3.
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Question 1
So the OA had 7 Debugging questions, I debugged all of them and all the test cases was passed. Then, Section 2 was 2 coding questions one was string and the other was Finding all the average value of the internal nodes i.e excluding the leaves and including the root and return the maximum average value node. I got all of my test cases passed. Section 3 was Aptitude, it was easy. Section 4 is kinda behavioral questions. The highlighting thing is I gave my best and was not shortlisted. I finished both the coding questions in 40 mins and i had 30 mins left. Both of my solutions were optimized to run in linear time. But, 6 people who had just done 1 coding question and another one with partial test cases got shortlisted. Worst selection criteria.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Aug 2017
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- Had problem
I was contacted by recruiter in 2017 and the next step was a technical phone interview which was surprising
to me as I never had a phone interview to solve the coding problem. However, it was difficult to hear the interviewee clearly as I was in Dubai and he must be reside at the other end of the world.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Durgapur, West Bengal) in Jul 2021
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The process comprised of one online test with two programming question, six code-debugging questions and twenty-five aptitute quetions , and three interviews with both technical questions and Amazon Leadership-based behavioral questions.
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Interview 1:
Discuss, how to store a whole database (comprising of at least 1 primary key) in a data structure. Needed to focus on the lookup time via the key provided.
Interview 2:
Divide a given graph into two groups such that no two members of the same group are connected with each other.
Check whether a given value can be made via combinations of given coins. There's an infinite supply of each coin.
Follow-up question: One of the coins from the given coins array can be used only a certain number of times.
Interview 3:
Given arrival and departure time of trains mark each train "Green" if they do not conflict with other trains and "Red" if it does. There is only one platform at the station.