Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Long interview process with not a lot of communication throughout. Overall, very time consuming and it felt like the whole process did not have to take as long as it did.
The interview was conducted online. The guy was probably in US or Canada. He asked me basic data structure questions. It started from searching an element in an array. Gradually moved to more advanced questions.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Nueva Delhi) in Jan 2020
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the main focus was on data structures and algos. and some of the core topics like system design ,oops concept, compiler design and much more and they also check your communications skills.