Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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After not hearing back from the company for a couple of weeks, I finally received an email telling me that I will be having a phone interview the next day. They allowed me to choose between three time slots. All together, it was a 2 hr technical interview with two different interviewers. They used an online coding website so they interview can view your work
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Nothing really difficult or unexpected, just know your stuff. As you are writing your programming, make sure to explain why you are doing what ever you are doing. If you are going off track, they will help.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
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first phone interview with co-edit tool. then on-site, 5 people give question one by one, most not from common problem pool but not very hard to implement if your mind is clear.
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can't say the detail, but one DFS question about matrix adjacent numbers max. different interviewer tends to have question that they designed.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Nueva Delhi) in Jul 2014
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I din't reach the interview round. I was not able to clear the first round mainly because of online coding as I was not in touch of that.
Other then that there were 20 MCQ which were pretty basic concepts of DS and algorithms.
So do prepare on an online coding site like code chef,hacker rank
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Online coding question : Do the vertical sum of all the axis.