Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2019
Interview
Two online assessments (code debugging, logic test, code writing, and decision making) followed by 3 separate 45 minute interviews. Interviews were virtual and each one had two people (one to talk and one to take notes).
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Write a method to find the largest-sum path to a leaf in binary tree.
Add two integers represented by linked lists.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Feb 2019
Interview
The hiring process was composed by 2 phone screenings apart 10 days from each other. Then 5 one-to-one interviews with developers and managers. All interviews were supposed to be in person, but only two of them were. The two coding interviews were through video call, even though I was told to be prepared for a white board interview.
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Question 1
Amazon really cares for the Leadership Principles and every non-technical question was something along the lines of "tell me about a time when you had to <show some of the leadership principles>".
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Round 1: Online Test having mental ability, correct the code,english, analytical and 2 coding problems. Problems ranged from easy to medium difficulty
Round 2: F2F round mainly focused on DS and Algo like Graphs, OOPs .