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:
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One or two phone screen. In house, interview with 5 people, usually three with engineers, one with manager, one with bar raiser (could be engineer or manager).
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Design/Write an algorithm to find the most-popular sequence of three pageTypes in a row.
I submitted my resume online and heard back almost a year later. I went through about 3 phone screens before doing the onsite and receiving an offer a few days afterwards.
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Optimizing Fibonacci for scale with caching considerations, large numbers
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
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Internship position. Interview consisted of two 45 minute phone interviews both technical in nature. Involved short answer basic OOP questions and data structures. 1 coding question in first interview (binary search tree) and 2 in second interview.
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Why do you want to work here? - The question is simple but the recruitor told me my answer was too generic the first time. You actually need to have a good answer for this and not the normal bs.