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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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2022
Interview
Applied online for the SDE role of AWS.
OA: 105 minutes with 2 coding problems & explanations for your code. Passed all tests and skipped the phone screening round.
VO: 4 rounds using Amazon Chime and Live Code whiteboard. One interviewer had a bad Internet connection and both of us needed to repeat again and again. One interviewer had little knowledge of data structure and algorithm or very poor understanding and kept asking me what the heap is. I answered 3 times and drew the graph, while the interviewer still not understood and was stuck on this question. That is hilarious. I was prepared to answer the questions of the interviewer, not to teach the interviewer. I could not imagine how a person was chosen as an interviewer for Amazon, asking about coding problems they would not solve.
Solved all 4 coding problems and got a rejection on day 2 after VO with no feedback. HR said that providing feedback regarding the interview is against company policy. Their hiring process is "CONFIDENTIAL". Then I cannot say more cause I have signed the Non-Disclosure Agreement. One must not wish to get accused of leaking company confidential information for saying someone or something is stupid.
So, enjoy your 400-point plummet of stock in one day with your mysterious hiring and promoting process, Amazon.
Tips: Remember to TERMINATE Amazon Chime after the interview cause this software could totally mess up your internet connection and consume an incomprehensibly large amount of resources of your computer for no reason.
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2 to 3 BQs, followed by OOD and algorithm coding problems, last one hour in total for each round.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2022
Interview
The interview process has a coding exam, a online screening call (may or may not have coding questions), and a final interview. The final interview consists of 3 hours with different managers. Each interview has introductions (resume overview), a coding question, and time for you to ask the manager about Amazon.
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One of the coding interviews was not algorithm based, but designed to test my software engineering skills. You had to make a class from scratch and build an API that you justify.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Apr 2022
Interview
I had a total of 4 interviews. The first interview was a phone interview where it started off with a few technical questions combined with behavioral questions. The total time was 1 hour. The next 3 were all on one day and all followed the exact same structure. Each starting off with behavioral questions and then moving onto the technical aspect of the interview. These 3 were more in depth questions. For each behavioral question they asked deeper and to describe it in depth.
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Programming question - Given 2 sorted arrays, merge them. Follow up, ensure only 1 of each element is saved in the merged array aka no duplicates.
Programming question - Given reverse polish notation, return the integer value of the expression aka "5,3,+,2,/" would be 5 + 3 = 8 and then 8 / 2 = 4.