Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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had 3 rounds of online assessment. first one was debugging round (do have the option of running the code and seeing the output) in languages - C++, C, Java. Second round had 2 programming questions (most of the languages are available including Python) and work style assessment (make sure you align with their 14 leadership principles). 3rd round was work simulation and and your work style assessment questionnaire.
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Question 1
mainly Leetcode easy and medium questions on linked list and arrays
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2019
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There are 3 phases for an interview
phase 1 Online multiple choice question
phase 2 Coding test
phase 3 Skype interview
Prepare the basic for loop and algorithm structures for the multiple choice questions. Prepare more for the coding interview. there are 2 coding questions each for 1 hour. The skype process will have both the HR questions, Basic technology questions and and a realtime coding challenge.
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I cannot reveal the Exact questions for the Coding test.
But finish the LeetCode Amazon questions to excel.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2019
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Applied in February 2019. Got contacted by a recruiter the next day to schedule an introductory call with her. She asked 2-3 basic CS questions at the end of it.
Received a coding challenge the following week, that I had 3 weeks to complete. Questions were medium level leetcode. Managed to get 4/10 test cases to pass for Q1 and 14/15 test cases to pass for Q2.
Got called for onsite. Onsite was 4 back-to-back 1 hour interviews. 2 were data structures/algorithms related. 1 was system design. 1 was more of an HR interview.