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.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokio) in Oct 2019
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I applied on line through linkin.
first is online exercise to complete in 1.5 hours.
after that HR contact me about location, position and next interview details.
then it's 5 rounds of interviews
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2016
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Interview process started with phone interview then after passing within two weeks I was set up for onsite full loop. Phone interview was to find the most repeated paths (most used). After the offer I was given L4 I asked for higher level and they decided to proceed with one extra interview after the on-site. Then I got an offer for L5z
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Charlotte, NC) in Mar 2019
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3 Rounds
1 st Round: Debugging (7 questions)
2nd Round: 2 Coding questions( Search in a matrix, Copy random pointer)
3rd Round: Virtual interview ( Some basic Hr questions and one coding question to group by dates of a given list of strings)
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Question 1
Group by dates of the given list of strings consisting of dates and some text