Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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A coding question from Codility, not very hard but the time is not enough for a perfect and efficient solution. You can test anytime when you are programming on the website. And there are many examples and practice questions on the website.
It takes more than 2 months until I received the next round interview invitation.
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Question 1
Write a program to find specific points in an 3D array.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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Apply online. Had an online assessment one month later. 7 easy debug coding questions that anyone who has some basic programming knowledge can solve it. All about for loop and comparison. Surprised that the questions are so easy......
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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They initially reached out with two possible interview dates the next week. There were two 45 min interviews with the 15 min break inbetween with two different engineers. They said I would hear within a week. Because of the holidays I didn't hear for 3 weeks. Still very timely though.
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Question 1
Asked questions that required using a data structure to solve the problem. They asked what types of DS could be used here, which would be best, the time complexity of each solution. Talked about each problem for me couple min before I started to code anything.