Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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There were 2 rounds of interview. The first interview round was an online coding challenge where you are expected to solve and code solutions for the problems. The second round had a virtual interview.
Three part online assessment with logic test, coding test, and workplace simulation. After that, three virtual interviews in succession. Virtual interviews were a few behavioral questions as well as a coding question that was given by an engineer.
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Find the k-th smallest element in a binary search tree
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2019
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Pretty straightforward. Two online assessments, after you pass those then 3 Skype interviews back to back. No on site for me. Took a little bit of time to get the first interview, after that everything went by pretty fast.
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Question 1
Data structures. Design large int class, a Trie and a recursion problem.