Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2019
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I applied online and got an online assessment in few weeks. Overall, the process was very slow and all the time they send emails from standard email ids. So basically, you don't have any contact information of a recruiter. After passing OA, I got a final interview.
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Question 1
Given pre-order and in-order traversal of a graph, return post-order traversal.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Apr 2019
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There was one online round which had debugging MCQs and two programming questions. After that, there were 4 onsite technical rounds, each being an eliminating round. All the rounds were technical. They also tested their leadership principles through the questions
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Question 1
Reconstructing a queue given height of people and the number of people taller than them and standing before them.
code debugging,2 coding questions,behavioural questions
all are online tests.
we will get mails for every section of the interview
after each section you will get mails that you completed that section
last I couldn't complete the coding section so got rejected
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Question 1
basic semi colon errors and loop errors for code debugging and 2 coding questions on linked lists (combining 2 sorted linked lists) and matrices , behavioural questions are based on your opinion about a situation