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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DS Round
All that matters here is only data structures. You must be really good at writing error-free and optimized codes that will handle all the boundary cases as well !
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This round consisted of 20 aptitude questions and 2 coding questions. The aptitude questions were easy and the coding questions were
find the maximum sum of subsequence in an array such that no two elements are adjacent
there was something wrong in the question and so they asked us to leave out this question !
They shortlisted 25 students and I was one among them
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Campinas, )
Interview
Inscrição na vaga pelo site do amazon jobs, execução dos testes, entrevista com a recrutadora e entrevista com os gestores. Entrevista com gestores bem densa, muitas perguntas técnicas, inclusive foi necessário resolver 2 desafios de código. Senti que o nível exigido era bem acima do que estágio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pergunta baseadas nos princípios de liderança da empresa. Perguntas sobre modelagem de banco de dados.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
3 round were there
1. Online test
2. Interview round - DSA
Starts with quick small intro, then discussion about project. Then 2 coding questions.
3. Interview round - DSA
Same pattern as of first round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. To find next smallest palindrome.
2. To find minimum string after removing k consecutive characters.
3. To find all numbers between 2 numbers in a binary tree