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 difficult. Spanned over the course of a month. Had 3 interviews with 3 different interviewers. 45 min with each person. 10 min on personal leadership stories and 35 min to solve live programming problems.
It was really smooth. Two questions asked of leetcode medium difficulty. One was on linkedlist other on trees.
Interviewers were very friendly. In terviewer pushed me towards the right approach continuously. She was very helpful.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2022
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Very lengthy (my process took 3 months start to finish) but everyone I interacted with was very professional.
Questions of the technical interview were 3 lc medium and 1 lc hard.
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Tree question, stack question, design a calculator, trie question