Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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I was contacted on Stack Overflow about being hired from Amazon's internal recruitment. After a phone interview I was asked to come for an on-site interview. The on-site interview was with 5 different people over the course of a day. The questions ranged from simple CS data structures, scaling, and soft skill questions
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Question 1
The most difficult questions were the softer questions. Like how you work with a difficult co-worker, what happens if you find a project will be behind, etc.