Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I did three assessments and then did a video interview online. The video review was fairly straightforward, and the engineer doing it was very nice. He was very numbers focused, and seemed to appreciate stats over stories when I speaking.
Made it to the second round only . The first was a phone interview about why want to work at Amazon. The second was a brief soft skills interview followed by DSA coding challenges
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Question 1
What is the time complexity of this recursive function?
Interviewing with Amazon chime. I was asked a typical behavioral question and then a medium level algorithm question. It was not a very hard question. Must read through the 14 Leadership Principle before the interview.
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Tell me about a time when you had to make a quick decision that was going to have a significant impact on the organization?