Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Did two online assessments then a virtual interview. The interview lasted about an hour with two behavioural questions and one coding question. The coding portion was not done in an environment where you could actually run the code, so it was important to be able to read your code and ensure that it was correct. My interviewer did not put that much emphasis on having code that was for sure able to compile, but I was expected to write my solution in an actual programming language.
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Tell me about a time where you had to make a decision on something where the details were unclear or ambiguous.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in May 2019
Interview
It was an online programming and agility check interview. The first 30 mins were for programming questions and the remaining 30 minutes were the problem-solving questions. There were about 5 programming question, 2 were easy, 2 were difficult and 1 was average. The problem-solving questions were of logical nature like filling in the missing patterns.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Nashville, TN) in Jul 2019
Interview
An introductory phone call, Online Assesment and Technical Phone Interview.
The first two were good. The interviewer in the third was drowsy and kept on asking the same question again and again about my algorithm. I explained as many times as possible but he said he doesn't get it. At some points, I couldn't hear him. So I politely told him that but he never asked me if I can hear. He just continued with his scripted dialogues.
Wasn't asked any behavioral questions or the complexities of my solutions at all.
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