Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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Call from recruiter then hacker rank assessment. Basic questions about projects and experience. Data structures and algorithms questions very useless questions like leetcode questions. Find min or max of something.
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Data structures and algorithms. Leetcode kind of stuff.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Aug 2022
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It was good, he first introduced himself and he directly jumped into dsa problems First question is maximum branch sum in a binary tree Second is Reverse stack without using extra space
4 Interview rounds, 1 to 2 behavioral questions then 1 medium leetcode problem. Study their leadership principles for the behavioral questions and make sure to relate your response to one of them.