Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Had phonescreen. I was asked data structures and algorithm questions (there were 2 questions) .Asked to visit onsite. Had 4 rounds of interviews ..including design, algo and what-if scenario questions.
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What would you do if you are representing a team with a partner and the partner gives you bad feedback about your peer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublín, Dublín) in Feb 2014
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I got in contact with a recruiter through a friend, and they were going to come to my country to do some interviews. After a first contact email they sent me a url to make an offline telematic interview, and after it I went to the onsite interviews, 5 in total.
A couple of weeks after the onsite interviews I got the offer.
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First I was surprised about was that they recommended me to read their Leadership Principles and think about them deeply, as they would ask me them, and in fact they did, so behavoiral questions will be asked.
Apart from that, they asked me some Object Oriented Programming questions, and some algorithmic questions.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in May 2014
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Applied through Amazon website.
A week later HR contacted to set up a 1 hour phone interview.
nterviewer asked to tell about my favorite course project and about my Co-Op Exp. Later asked to write a code in any interested language about how to find two numbers in an array whose sum is equal to a given number. Asked how I can improve it and what its Big O, is it going to compile
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Later asked about Virtual methods, polymorphism, its importance and use. Messed up the Polymorphism question. I think that is the reason for my rejection.