Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2020
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First coding then research experience. Coding is about backtracking. The research question is about describing your research experience and then they probably would ask some following questions about the research. At last they will ask about your research plans etc.
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Given a soduku problem, how would you solve it with programming.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jun 2020
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Consisted of two technical rounds basically related with data structures and algorithms and computer science fundamentals. I was offered a 6 months internship at amazon, India and based on my internship performance the offer will be converted into full-time. Overall the interview process was very smooth and interesting.
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Rain Water Trapping problem
Stock buying selling problem
A graph Depth First Search problem
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Ahmedabad) in Sep 2020
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There is online assignment. Which is scheduled at 12 PM but They did delay in sending links and make us wait till 3 PM then Again they told wait till 5 PM . Then finally I got link At 7 PM. After they give shortlist and next day interview round 1 ,2 , 3 . I have clear only Assignment after I gave 1 st round of personal interview and I am not shortlisted further.
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In First section there are 7 questions. Program given with some Error we just have to find and correct it. Then 3 coding question. One was Finding Bridge in graph , second was mere two shortlisted linked lists. Then lots of MCQs type related to English and decision making like we can choose most likely sentence for given scenario