Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
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It was a recruitment day. There were 4 1:1 technical interviews. Basic algorithm questions - circular linked list, anagrams, evaluating arithmetic expression and flattening a tree and writing to a file. They were pretty simple and straight forward. The interviewers try to help you out with the answers. Did a couple of rounds very well, and a couple went ok, which I guess is the reason for rejection.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
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I had two technical phone interviews. Some of the questions are.
- Detecting loop within a directed graph.
- What's the difference between Rest vs SOAP
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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Amazon HR contacted me and scheduled a phone interview. One of the development manager interviewed me, he gave very detailed explanation about the division and then asked some questions. He was polite.
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Question 1
At least one question involving a hash table. Amazon is famous for asking questions about hash tables. Either they ask about the hash table constructs in various programming languages (like Java and Perl, hash vs. map, etc..), or a coding problem where the hash table affords an O(N) or O(1) solution.