Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I failed at OA2. There are two parts for OA2. There are two coding questions in the first part, you can find list of those questions in leetcode discussion page. The time limit is 70 minutes, you can switch back and forth between the problems. The second part is workstyle assessment. Make sure to do some research before answering this part. I think this is where I failed.
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something like " What you will do with changing deadline"
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2020
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I was contacted by a recruiter. Then it was the normal process of passing the online assessment and virtual "on site" interview. The interview was 4 1hour long interviews. They were a mix of behavioral and technical questions.
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Question 1
Some questions meant to target LPs and some adaptations of leetcode problems
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2020
Interview
The interview was conducted virtually. The interview revolved around some simple DSA questions and the interviewer focused on optimising the approach and reducing the time complexity for the given problem. The interviewer were friendly and provided clues whenever i got stuck.