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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After initial calls with an Amazon recruiter to make sure I might be a good culture fit, I went thought four one-hour long interviews each consisting of a behavioral questions portion in the first half followed by a coding or design challenge.
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Question 1
Describe a time you had to use outside the box thinking to simplify a task.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Lussemburgo)
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It was the OA round, 3 questions from the HackerRank platform, 1 Easy 2 Medium-Hard mostly focused upon graphs and matrix. I can't remember the exact question but was Leetcode types.
Qualified for there round 2 OA which was the Leadership principle round.
home assessment that include 2 technical questions and personality part of the way you react to work related conflicts, including clashes between teams or between your opinion and team lead opinion etc. I think they mostly tried to test your character and problem solving capabilities.
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Question 1
describe a situation where you had several options and needed to pick one.