Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 33 days.
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I applied online after applying and declining the offer for the previous year. There were 2 (maybe 3?) online technical assessments. The first one was a debugging section that was timed, and there was also a workplace simulation. Then there was a technical phone interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (El Cairo, ) in Oct 2019
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At first they send me an online assessment It was a little bit easy then after that they schedule a phone call interview for half an hour I was asked some technical questions and also a behavioral questions then I was invited to one : one interview and they send me an email for all the preparation needed there were four interviews each one for an hour and focus on a particular technical side and also one or two behavioral questions
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They ask me about a time that I had a wrong decision and how I deal with it
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2019
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The Interview process is confusing.. After applying at amazon careers,
- got an email to write online test, 80% of the test cases were passed.
- Didn't get any response from the recruited was initially assigned
- Got call from another recruiter and scheduled for Paired Programming
- Answered all the questions correct but the efficiency of the program i wrote was bad.
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