Amazon Software Development Engineer, II interview questions
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The interviews were just as expected, part behaviour questions and another part of coding. In the last interview there was no coding part but instead an architecture problem. The behaviour questions are just as important as the rest and require candidates to enter into details, giving real examples from real projects done in the past and not hypotetical. I explained exactly what I did and how my work contributed to the success of my project.
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Give me an example of a time you had to go beyond your role responsibilities. What was your goal? What did you do?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, ) in Mar 2022
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O processo de entrevista consistiu em algumas etapas, majoritariamente focado em algoritmos e estruturas de dados, e também sobre como sua experiência se encaixa na cultura da empresa.
No geral a experiência é bem transparente, porém na última etapa não fui aprovado, e tive que mandar um e-mail para receber algum feedback
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Assinei um NDA então não posso revelar, mas no geral perguntas de nível médio da plataforma Leetcode
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2022
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Amazon standard interview process.
first two questions to be solved in 90 min and then some work tests.
Then phone screen as the interviewer with some design and data structure questions and finally the interview with six engineers.
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Data structures questions, complexity time and space and some algorithms to develop. Leetcode medium.