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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The interview was quite an experience. They were asking about the projects in the resume and some general coding questions. I felt comfortable with the questioning. To be on the safer side I would like to add that one must be confident in what's in the resume
First round is online test which contains 5 sections, first section is find the bugs, second section is aptitude, third section is coding section which has two questions, fourth section is are you like this or that(sort of behavioural), fifth section is feedback.
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Find bugs in the given code.
Fill the truck problem.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2021
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Multiple steps of assesment with each round having coding exercise. In each round there will be coding based on DS and Algorithms and you must be able to explain and write a logical program
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Question 1
Data structure and Algorithms about Graph and trees