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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Question 1
given a single linked list, where every node also has a pointer to any random node, apart from normal value and next node pointer. This random pointer can point to any node in the linked list and can also be null. Task is to make another copy of this linked list with all same structure.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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I had resume referred through a friend. HR was quick to contact and schedule a phone interview. 2 Phone interviews followed by onsite interview which had 5 rounds of technical interviews. The whole process was very good though quite tiring.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon
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I applied online and through my university's career portal. I heard back in a week . I had 2 phone interviews and after that I was flown to Seattle to attend a 6 hour hackathon like on-site interview. It was really cool. I got to work at a test code of the team I was being interviewed for.
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Question 1
It was a test code of the team was interviewing me.