Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The interviewer spent 30 minutes asking the resume and it only left 10 minutes for the coding part. The coding is about bit manipulation, which I didn’t prepare well. The whole interview is a mess.
Very straightforward, but long. Have 4 back-to-back interviews, 45 minutes each. Each interview consisted of about 20 minutes of behavioral questions and a 25 minute technical question. There was a 30 minute break in the middle to go to the bathroom and get water.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement on the ideal approach to a problem with a colleague. What was the outcome? What actions did you take?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2021
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The first question in the technical interview section was simple. As I solved it, they added more and more layers of complexity. I got it correct, but maybe my solution was suboptimal because I did not make it to the next intervie round.
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Question 1
Something related to iterating through an array, really not that difficult.