Amazon Software Development Engineer, II interview questions
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Software Development Engineer, II applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Dec 2020
Interview
It was good experience. All interviewer were very kind and helpful. I was asked good questions, basically they wanted to see how I approach the problems and I am good at solving them or not.
Stages:
1- 30 mins HR phone call. Your past experiences and 2 Leadership questions.
2- Codility assigment: I was assigned a codility test and was asked take it with in 1 week. There were 2 tasks 105 mins. After each task there was a following question which asks explain your solution and calculate time and space complexity. First one was simple straight forward solution just needs to be careful about edge cases. The second one was a bit more difficult. I used graph with object oriented design
3- Online onsite interview: It was online due to Covid-19 situations and took 4 hours. There were 4 parts at each parts I was asked 2-3 Leadership principle questions. First tree part was medium-difficulty coding questions just like codility. Actually I saw one of them in codility before. You should know data structures very well for example you should be able to answer why you preferred Sorted Map over Unsorted one or vise-versa. Last one was system design question. Overall there are 10-15 system design questions are asked in all interviews so you will definitely be asked one of them.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2019
Interview
There was one online coding assessment in the beginning. The recruiter said, based on how the assessment goes, they would let me know about the next steps.
After the online coding assessment, there was onsite interview - 4 different rounds.
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Question 1
Based on data structures and algorithms.
Amazon puts a lot of weightage on the LPs (leadership principles) as well. So do prepare for that and come up with at least one good example for all the LPs based on your previous work/project experience.
Interview was through a Call using Amazon Chime .. Pretty Straightforward with 2 Leadership Principles Question and 1 Live Coding Question and around 1 hour time frame Mostly focused on the Leadership principles 2 Questions asked and after that 1 coding (DFS)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Number Of Islands (Leetcode)
1. Tell me one time you went above and beyond for a customer
2. Tell me one time when you failed at work