Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2019
Interview
There are totally 3 OA. After that we use chime for the final video interview. The connection is bad. I couldn't hear clearly what interviewer say. First part is behavior questions, and second part is coding questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Varsovia, Mazovia) in Jul 2019
Interview
The process took about 2-3 weeks. First-round was a codility test with 3 tasks every of different complexity levels (easy, medium and). After successfully passing the first stage, I was invited to onsite interview. The interview was about 4 hours with the classical Amazon approach. The overall experience was good except that they don't provide feedback.
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Question 1
1. Smth like this one "Search a Word in a 2D Grid of characters"
2. Long description but in short words, the task was almost like an implementation of "Rabin-Karp Algorithm for Pattern Searching"
3. Design an interface for File System manipulation. (cp, find, rm...)
4. Architecture design was to design airport landing - taking off system.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bucarest, ) in Jun 2018
Interview
Initial phone call with the recruiter. Then online coding test, two algorithm questions and about 45 mins long.
After I went to onsite interviews with four people. Everything well organized. Nothing to complain.
Response time wasn’t too long. They returned in a week after the interview.