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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First, self-introduction and the interviewer will give you some information on the position. Then coding. And the interviewer will give you follow-up questions. After that, you will be required to ask some bonus questions.
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lc 128 + OOP(design a util class to search file recursively, make sure the extendability, using abstract base class and depth-first search)
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
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Consisted of one online coding round and three online interview rounds. The last round is the behavioural and system design interview. Reading Amazon Leadership principles will be useful. Going through previous Amazon interview questions will give you confidence.
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What was the difficulty you have faced in your project and how did you overcome it?
Coding assessment is sent first. Then if you passed you get a phone interview.
Then, you do the onsite which consists of 4 interviews back-to-back. 3 of these interviews related to developing code, one of them is related to System Design
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NDA Signed so I can't say much about questions. However, it was 4 rounds, 3 of them related to code developing and one is related to system design