Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
I was mainly asked a bunch of behavioral questions along with past projects and my current job. The technical/whiteboard questions were pretty easy, just have to know your data structures and algorithms.
One (out of four) of the interviewers kept questioning my whiteboard work because she couldn't understand it. Which made it feel weird as to why she was interviewing me, it took like 5-10 minutes of explaining before it clicked (it was simple matrix index searching using BFS).
About a week later, I got denied and told was with 6-12 months development experience under my belt they think I'd be a good fit. They knew my current position isn't dev work, so their response is a bit odd... oh well, on to the next.
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Question 1
Simple questions based on common data structures/algorithms, just study.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2019
Interview
First round is debugging questions, followed by 2 coding problems, and then an assessment. Only able to solve one of the two coding questions so I did not advance to the next round
Amazon Interview SDE 2019
Round 1: 20 min debugging.
Q1: Reverse Array
Logic: Loop array in half
Swap last element with first and so on…
Q2: Grading marks
Q3: Count number of occurrences
Q4: Print pattern 11,1111,111111
Q5 : Sort the array in ascending order
Q7: Selection sort logic
Round 2 :
Coding 70 mins two questions
QS: Return position of an element in Matrix .
Matrix is stored as a different DS .So its not as easy as it sounds
QS : Subtree of another tree
Amazon Leadership principles round based on their 14 principles
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
QS: Return position of an element in Matrix .
QS : Subtree of another tree