Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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It was a two-stage interview process. A coding round followed by an on-call technical/behavioral round. The coding round was simple. The technical question asked on-call was simple too. Messed up the behavioral round.
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Question 1
What were some mistakes you made as a leader in a project?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2019
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The online assessments were normal although they asked graph in last round. Prepare leadership principles and LC easy and mediums. The interviewers are good and will help you work through a problem but try to give optimized results.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2018
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First there is a coding test containing 20 mcq and 2 coding questions. Then two rounds of interviews take place . Knowledge of trees and graphs is very important. One interview goes on for about an hour