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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
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3 rounds of interviews
First round is an online tech assessment.
Second round is a phone interview that goes over data structures and algorithms, a coding challenge and some behavioural questions.
Third round is 6 interviews on-site for different purposes.
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Tell us about a situation where you had to work with a difficult teammate
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
HR contacted me to set up an interview
I only scored around 70-80 of the test cases. Was surprised that I passed
Phone screen 1 week later, LC easy
Onsite 1 month later, 2 medium, 2 easy, 1 hard - all high popular LC problems
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2020
Interview
Round 1: Several easy debugging questions in Java. (easy)
Round 2: Cognitive and workplace assessment. (easy)
Round 3: 2 coding questions. (medium)
Round 4: 3 45 minute virtual interviews, with one coding question for each. (hard)
The process dragged on for a long time, but that was only because there were so many rounds. Otherwise, Amazon was pretty quick to get back to me after each round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me the number of islands question in my final round.