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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
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Applied on online, then got a email from a recruiter ask me to do a online assessment.
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Question 1
Three algorithm questions within an hour and half. Pretty basis questions about linked list, array list, and a dynamic programming question about a two dimensional array.
Amazon came to campus of my university. They conducted 1 interview of 45 minutes as first screening. Those who got selected were invited for 2nd round having 3 interviews.
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Nothing was difficult. All were general questions based on Hashtable, Sorting, OOPS concept. 1) Given list of elements find if it contains duplicates.
2) Explain inheritance.
3) What is difference between int & Integer.
4) Given file containing IP addresses hitting amazon servers, find ip address with maximum traffic.
5) How Hashtables work?
6) Some behavior questions.