Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
Interview
First I got an email with an invitation to participate in an online coding challenge. After that i was contacted to make an online interview with a part behavioral and a part technical
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On the online challenge one was an easy array question and the other was a path finding question. On the call the question was a binary tree problem.
Passed the OA and got the comfirmation email for the final VO, then after 2 weeks I was notified the VO was cancelled due to limited headcounts, and the HR helps transfer my interview to another team and got another VO, then two days after confirming the new VO date, it was cancelled again, due to limitied availablies as well.
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Question 1
In OA, there was a priority queue and an array question.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2022
Interview
The interview was for 30 minutes and I was asked both the online assessments questions. I was waiting for behavioral questions to jump on but the interviewer simple said that the interview is done.