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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I was contacted via recruiter on LinkedIn. Had a couple of technical phone interviews.
First was about 30-40 minutes, was asked resume related questions and a couple of usual algo questions with coding on paper and reading it out.
Second was longer, about 50-60 minutes, more focused on databases and querying.
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All questions were decent, not too simple but not overtly tough either. However, key is talking though the entire process even during phone interviews while working on a problem.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2012
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Give them my résumé at school career fair, followed by a phone interview. They ask questions mainly on technical. Data structure and algorithms knowledge required to answer the questions. They also require you to write some code during the interview.
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All the questions are technical, nothing surprise. But their questions are not easy...