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:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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First round is Coding challenge. If you clear then,
Virtual Coding Interview, generally 2 coding questions
Schedule for an Onsite Technical and Behavioral Interview, typically lasts for 4 hours. Result will be given in 1 week.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions, coding questions on data structures
The application process consisted of a few OA's and then an interview with a coding question and a few behavioral questions. The coding question was nothing too difficult, just performing BFS on a tree. For the behavioral questions, make sure you know the 12 Amazon Leadership Principles, as they want you to tie those into your answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time in which you took ownership of something.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was reached out by the recruiter on LinkedIn. A week later I took the phone interview and got the result on the same day. 3 weeks later I took the video onsite interview.