Amazon Software Development Engineer, II interview questions

Coding assessment link was sent, completed the first problem with no issues, coded the second problem and encountered issues with their assessment program... had to write workaround code to get it to compile properly. Video interviewed with 4 people, first interviewer kept disconnecting from wifi and eventually had to interview me with half the time available and no video. Second interviewer just did not care whatsoever. Third interviewer was the only decent interviewer. Fourth interview was accompanied by a trainee and felt a bit unprofessional.

Multiple recruiters reached out to me to have me interview with Amazon. The recruiter told me that they had fully remote positions available and relocation would not be required. So, I started the online coding assessment for these positions which took two hours. I passed the assessment with no problem. After finishing the assessment the recruiter told me that they didn’t have any remote positions in that department and sent me a list of other opportunities that were not interesting. A week later, another Amazon recruiter reached out and said Amazon had an open position. I looked at the job description and thought it was a little more interesting, but required that I have experience developing a new system. I don’t have that experience so I told the recruiter. He said that’s fine. He also said that I need to take another online assessment because the previous online assessment was for SDE I. So, I did. Two hours later I finished it with no problems. Then, I proceeded to the final interview. It went well and the interviewer told me they would reach out with next steps in less than a week. I reached out to the recruiter a week later regarding the status and received no response. Two weeks later, still no response. Three weeks later the recruiter asked again if I had experience developing new systems. I told him no. He responded that I could not be considered for this position without that experience. A week later a third recruiter reached out and wanted me to interview for an Amazon affiliated company. I told him sure, but my interview process better be better than the one I finished recently. He asked how long ago the interview was and then proceeded to tell me that I was on a cool down period since I had already interviewed with Amazon. Overall, five hours of my time wasted with a forced hiring “cool down” because a recruiter couldn’t listen in the first place. Lessons learned: Amazon recruiters don’t listen, Amazon interview process is a waste of time, and to Amazon, interviewees are disposable.