Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2021
Interview
I got one Online assessment. If we pass that then one
On-site interview - 4 rounds. Each round will last for an hour. Behavioral and coding questions. Behavioral based on LPs available online.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Calcuta) in Aug 2019
Interview
Couple of rounds.
Main focus on DSA. A lot of medium level conceptual question are asked from Data structures and algorithms
Good knowledge of theory subjects : DBMS, Object Orientated programming, system design.
I was given an initial coding challenge comprised of a debugging challenge as well as a more complex coding problem. The issue is that the IDE they use is really buggy and made it hard to code on their platform. There were other issues with their process as well, including an incorrect timer and no auto-save/submit feature.