Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Sídney)
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The AWS team is opening the new software development house in Sydney. I received phone interview notice after I submitted the online application.
It started with the two round phone interviews, around 15 mins general talk and then focused on code interviews on collabedit.com. They are all around 1 hours each.
Then I got into the in-house interview consisting of 3 phone interviews with engineers from Seattle, (I suppose it's a new team they haven't got enough engineers to do it), another 3 based in Australia two of them are from management team.
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I would say most technical questions are not unexpected, I got many behavioral questions from management side, like 'Is there problem that you feel really hard and haven't try yet', 'what if you are required to solve it, how would you get started?'
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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Asked some tree-based questions and questions on arrays. It was not that difficult if you prepare well in advance. Had 3 rounds of onsite interview and I didn't do well in the 2nd round maybe because of which I didn't get the offer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2014
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I was contacted by a recruiter through linkedin, had some email correspondence which was nice and quick, then a phone interview, after that I was given a programming test in Java using interviewzen. I had 4 hours to complete it. The programming test included writing a simple method, and make test cases for it.
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Java programming test including writing test cases.