Amazon Software Development Engineer Intern interview questions
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Software Development Engineer 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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there was 1 round consisting of both behavioral and technical questions. The behavioral questions were pretty standard. Technical involved a coding question, walking through the solution, and discussing various changes and optimizations for the problem. Finally, last couple of minutes were for asking questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY)
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This was during covid, but the interview process was relatively easy. You had a short conversation with an employee for thirty minutes, they will 100% ask you about their STAR acronym, and maybe about their leadership principles.
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How do you sort through a list of numbers (with a small catch)
Create a funciton without an IDE from scratch that has some output
For the winternship, I had two 1hr technical interviews, that consisted of a 35 min behavioral and a 25 min technical. the technical was just a leetcode medium with some followups. the behavioral was centered around their LP.