Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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There were 3 steps of online assessments (debugging, standard OA, and a leadership principles section (workplace simulator)) with a final on site video interview with a senior Amazon software engineer
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2 behavorials and how to find the top k elements in a list
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX) in Oct 2020
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Conventional 5 round interview - 50% technical and 50% behavioural with Leetcode hard problems. Be sure to practice Leetcode problems with one extra focus on Dynamic Programming and Graph / Tree related problems.
3 Online Assessments consisting of debugging, leetcode style questions, and a behavioral portion. If you do well on all three of the online assessments you get to move on to a final interview with an engineer which will be half behavioral and half technical.