Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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1) Online assessment with a debugging section, a coding section, and a work simulation.
2) Interview with three engineers, each ask you standard interview questions, then ask you coding questions. One was system design.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Ámsterdam) in Mar 2021
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One codility test which was made up of 2 questions and had to be completed in 95 minutes. After passing the codility test, there was a 60-min phone live coding. There are 4 rounds in final interview.
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They asked a lot of behavioral questions in the final interview, such as "tell me a time you failed a commitment" or "conflicts with colleagues and how do you handle it". For coding problems, they are medium leetcode problems.
NDA signed with Amazon. Data structures and design questions as per industry norms were asked including leadership principles related questions were asked in the on-site interview . I can’t disclose exact questions but refer to leetcode or CTCI book