Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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1 coding round followed by 3 technical interviews. All rounds were held online. A very massive weightage was associated with competitive coding - especially dynamic programming. Leadership principles are the focus for behavioural questions. As far as the non-CP technical questions go, the interviewers were very friendly and would often ask you to pick something that interested you and discuss it rather than asking questions randomly.
3 OAs, first one was about debugging 7 coding problems, pretty easy and straight forward; second was coding two problems, leetcode medium level; third was testing work simulation, would take around 2 hours.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Tel Aviv) in Feb 2021
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three parts, the first one is to find simple bugs in shorts code, for example, forgot '{' or '++'.
the second part is 2 code questions, for example, get the three most common words in the given sentance.
the third part is a simulation of a days work as an amazon employee, you have a meeting and then consult with you about projects and such.
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Question 1
to get the three most common words in the given sentence.