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.
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2 online assessments, then an interview where they asked behavioral and technical questions. Behavioral questions seemed to be looking for whether or not you act according to Amazon's leadership principles, so read those. Technical question had to do with traversing a tree using depth-first search.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Mar 2022
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Firstly introduction happened, then some Comp Science Fundamental questions based on OOPS, OS, Networking and DBMS. Then DSA questions were based on Trees and DP on Strings, and one was based on Tries.
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LCA - Trees
Shortest Anagram on the string
Tries famous question
1 round of 3 interviews. 2 technical interviews and 1 behavioral based interview with the STAR method; "Tell me about a time where you ...". Technical interviews were coding challenges.
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Tell me about a time where you thought outside the box to solve a problem.