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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
One on one interview: 38%
Personality test: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
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the interview was quite good because they don't focus on you skills rather they focus on your time complexity, reasoning questions. Then they try to access your communication skills through your vocab.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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First Round involve online programming test, whereby you have to solve various programming tasks.
Second Round involve phone interview with senior engineer, asking about various background and some problem solving questions.
Third Round will be in person interviews with 4-5 different Senior Engineers and Managers, testing on various aspect problems solving and techniques.
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Third round interviews involve 4-5 interviews, each about 45 mins, testing your problem solving, logically and various programming skills and techniques.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2020
Interview
Got a return offer from passing intern return offer hiring bar. Did well on my intern project and demonstrated Amazon Leadership Principles well in order to receive the return offer.
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