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 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2014
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Contacted by University Recruiter. Sent to Seattle offices for their group interviews. The questions were not too hard, but it is important to start with a simple working solution and then iterate to a more complicated solution due to the time constraints.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Mar 2013
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Applied online and got a phone screening which is pretty straight forward interview questions about data structures. Later called me for on-site interview which is a bit hard and focuses more on Algorithms and playing around with linked lists, Strings and queues. They asked me to write code in C++ for Poker Game
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Question 1
Writing a Poker game during the on-site interview which is quite efficient in terms of memory and speed