Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Highly biased towards girls and to boys they ask question like dp , graph but for girls its array and linked list and basic things. HRs need to change .
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Amsterdam) in Nov 2021
Interview
2nd phase was video call. It took around 1 hour. Firstly they wanted to express myself in technical background way. After that asked one technical question which is about amazon has airport and airplanes.
input include arrival and leave time. they wanted to return maximum count of airplane at any specific time.
in example
plane 1 [3,4]
plane 2[1,3]
plane 3[2,6]
answer is 3. there are 3 planes in the airport.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2019
Interview
First there was an online round.
Second and third rounds were DSA.
Fourth round had questions on CS fundamentals. Had questions on OOP, Operating systems, Networks, compiler .
Final round had behavioural questions, DSA and few questions on previous experience.
Interviewers were friendly and helpful.