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.
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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A few technical questions + a few questions about me. Whole process is split into 2 45 minutes sessions. Overall, it is quite a smooth process. . . . . .
Phone technical interview. Talked through coding experiences. Discussed approach, how to map to an algorithm, analyzed the runtime of the program. Discussed how I could make it better, looked at runtime vs storage efficiency of alternate improvements and discussed scenarios where one would want to be used with interviewer.
was contacted on LinkedIn to give my information (cv etc) then had a phone call and a meeting (applicant day) to give a general overview of the process. Then an interview 20mins long competency based then straight after a technical interview. same day.