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.
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The interviewer showed up late and was not even interested in what I had to say. He was typing an email to someone the entire time I was talking to him. Also, he left the interview without saying anything.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Dec 2019
Interview
After applying on the Amazon jobs website, I was approached via email by an Amazon recruiter. They set up an online assessment for me, which were two coding questions in 90 min as well as 15 min survey asking you to explain your thinking for the coding questions, and a survey with personality questions (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree).
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Question 1
A technical coding question included a question about binary trees and the various traversals (In-order, pre-order and post-order). If given the In-order (L, M, R) and Post-order (L, R, M), can you return the original tree? (M for mid instead of root because it starts with R). The two inputs are arrays of integers, the values at each node of the binary tree.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2019
Interview
Began with phone screening going over brief experience mentioned on resume. Next a set of assessments were sent to the applicant to complete. Finally a virtual interview between another SDE is performed, going over a single technical coding question and two behavioral questions.
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