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 online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2018
Interview
The process was as described in other Glassdoor reviews. One 90 min coding challenge, one phone screen interview and 4 hours onsite interview.
Two design and two algorithm questions. I'd seen one of the algorithm questions on Glassdoor -Amazon reviews- before the interview :)
Each interviewer also asked two or three questions about leadership principles. These questions also could be found on Glassdoor. I think these questions and the interviewee's answers have more impact on the result than coding stuff!
I prepared a lot of questions to ask form them and they answered my questions very well. The bar raiser interviewer explained about her responsibilities a lot which was very nice to me. I had very great experience.
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Two design and two algorithm questions (Binary Tree, HashTable, LinkedList, etc).
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2018
Interview
Interview was in bangalore for chennai job location. First round was written, they had asked 3 questions. All the questions were typical and I wrote down correct answers along with its time complexities and comments. I was told by HR my performance was not good and that was end of it.
I had given interviews earlier as well where after being shortlisted for 1st round asks us to wait for like 5-6 hours in between next rounds.
Recruiter set up a technical phone screen with one of the engineer. She asked me two technical questions and some behavioral questions. It did well in both technical questions as well behavioral questions. She told me that solutions for both questions are correct. I felt that even she was not well prepared for interview as well. In between, she came up with random questions. One day later, they came back saying they would like to consider me for SDE1 instead of SDE2 . Currently, I am working as SDE2. Why would I want to demote myself ? I declined the request.