Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 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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4 step interview, step 1 is debugging, step 2 in coding challenge and step 3 behavioral questions and after that face to face interview. The first 3 part is doable but face to face part can be difficult
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Debugging question, Questions about arrays and linkedlist with hashing
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh) in Jun 2020
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First round consisted of 4 sections - aptitude, behaviour, coding and debugging. Second round was the final round of interview which lasted for 1 hour approx. Questions related to my project, its tech stack, OOPS in java and DS were asked
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What is virtual memory? Also, Give differences between abstract class and interface.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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Applied for the position via my school's career services site. Nearly 4 months later received a request to complete two phone interviews. After scheduling the interview, I was never called then received another email to reschedule the next month.
The interviewers are generally very helpful, guiding you along the write track as you answer - the first began by telling me a bit about the company and his position specifically. Be prepared to talk about your past experience, as well as answer questions about fundamental OO concepts and data structures. I was given one programming assignment in the first interview and another in the second, the second problem a slight variation of the first - be prepared to dictate your code over the phone (must be syntax-correct). I would suggest practicing by writing code on a notepad/paper instead of using an IDE. I would suggest reviewing data structures, algorithm analysis (you will be expected to analyze the time/space complexity of the functions you write). Received a response 1 week post-interview.
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Given two int arrays, write a function which returns their intersection as an int array; analyze the time/space complexity of your function.