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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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
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There were a 2 weeks delay between interview sessions. The questions were basic. The interviews were technical in nature. Object Oriented Programing, Data Structures, Algorithms and Complexity are your friends.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Waterloo, ON) in Oct 2012
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The interview process was done through JobMine (Internship - I'm from Waterloo). The two "stages" were 45-minute technical interviews with two current developers on the team. Most of the code is on paper, but in some cases algorithm analysis and runtime analysis (big-O, specifically) is considered in your solutions. Be prepared for many questions on data structures and their implementations.
In the coding problems, they ideally want you to work in Java or C/C++. I did stuff in Scheme, which they did not appreciate.
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Question 1
In a collection of strings, output the string that occurs most often.