Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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it was the campus drive. the process took 2+ week. first round contains 20 mcq and 2 programming. data structure concept is very important.
the second round also a programming round.
third round is hr round where basic introduce about yourself questions were asked
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Sídney) in Apr 2019
Interview
There was a Phone Screen interview, I was asked three behavioural questions and one coding exercise. The behavioural questions were not difficult which I could explain them, however, I was asked to explain technical problems and how I reacted to those problems.
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Question 1
Describe something challenging in a recent project, What technical problems did you encounter in that project and What did you do for that project?
Coding exercise: Find occurrence of character in a string using Java collection hashMap. e.i:
Given a string " Amazon Web Services" the output should be:
Character a appears 2 times
Character b appears 1 times
Character c appears 1 times
Character d appears 0 times
Character e appears 3 times
Character f appears 0 times
Character g appears 0 times
Character h appears 0 times
Character i appears 1 times
Character j appears 0 times
Character k appears 0 times
Character l appears 0 times
Character m appears 1 times
Character n appears 1 times
Character o appears 1 times
Character p appears 0 times
Character q appears 0 times
Character r appears 1 times
Character s appears 2 times
Character t appears 0 times
Character u appears 0 times
Character v appears 1 times
Character w appears 1 times
Character x appears 0 times
Character y appears 0 times
Character z appears 1 times
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2019
Interview
Applied online. Two online assessments were given, followed by a virtual interview. The onlines assessments consisted of debugging questions, multiple choice pattern recognition questions, and leetcode-style coding problems. The interview consisted of behavioral and technical questions and some time to ask the interviewer questions.