Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2021
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They wanted me to complete it so they sent multiple links, It was done through a website no interviewer. I had to do a part 1 which was debugging then a coding, then a questionnaires.
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They were kinda Hard make sure you know data structures
Emailed round of coding challenges and a company fit culture survey. First round solves bugs in a various pieces of code and second round solve two coding challenges. One of easy and one of medium difficulty.
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Cannot say due to NDA but I recommend practising data structures and algorithms questions.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2021
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Three online assessments, then a virtual onsite, then an offer. This was for the new grad SDE position. After the three online assessments I was originally rejected, but then they reached back out a few months later and gave me an interview
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The first was a generalization of two sum (https://leetcode.com/problems/two-sum/), k sum, with tuples of length k instead of 2, with the assumption that each element is unique. I'd say LC medium.