Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Tell me about a time you faced a challenging problem, how you approached it, and what impact your solution had.
Semi-difficult OA. 1 round technical interview that consisted of behaviorals (read up on the Amazon Leadership Principles) and a binary tree search question that was pretty straight-forward. Recommended brushing up on behaviorals and basic algorithms.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
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Applied through the recruiter. First call received the application. Went through one technical assessment round, where asked two coding questions. then two technical rounds simultaneously. Then received the rejection after 1 week
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Two Leetcode Easy to Medium question for the assessment.
Then technical round: recruiter asked two coding questions. Total 4 questions from leetcode