Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE Intern interview questions
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There were a total of 2 rounds.
First-round involved coding and 2nd involved DSA questions involving trees and binary numbers. He also asked me about my projects and other academics.
In my opinion, the online assessment was a bit unreasonable, and the fact that it seems a function of chance which problems a certain candidate might get seems a bit off to me. Obviously, you can't have people cheating so you can't give the same problem to everyone, but I am curious as to how to make it such that people know what difficulty to expect going into the interview.
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Minimum Cost connections in a graph given arrays with beginning node, end node, and cost.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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First I got invited to an OA it was just a two parts assessment
The first one was a hacker rank assessment I got two questions one was easy medium the other one was hard medium
Then I did the final part which is a work simulation, they give you emails and situations and you have to choose the correct choice
After that, I got invited to the final interview
It was a 45min interview both technical and behavioral the behavioral mainly consisted of leadership principles questions
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Tell me about a time you had to make a decision with no available data