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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It was an interview for a new grad. The interview question was 1 array medium + 1 tree easy + 1 OOD. The interviewers are nice but I was lacking of interview skills at that time and didn't do well in the OOD round.
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The interview question was 1 array medium + 1 tree easy + 1 OOD.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
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I got the amazon assessment after applying on multiple amazon jobs. In this assessment I have 2 programming questions from hackerrank. I practiced with the sample test. I have practiced on stack, array, string, linked list, queue and hash tables data structure and sorting searching and recursive algorithm. Also there are tow different assesssment which are for system design and survey
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In system design question I got one question that need some key value pair data to store in database and it asked me which database you should use? Option were MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Postgres.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
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A recruiter connected with me via LinkedIn and arranged an Online Assessment (OA). After successfully clearing the OA, a telephonic interview was scheduled, but unfortunately, I didn't pass it.
Although I successfully completed the coding portion and explained a few other scenarios related to the code, I struggled with behavioral questions.