Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interview process is too lengthy: 1 is online assessment for 4 hours then the panel round consisting of 3 back to back interviews of leetcode, system design and behavioral interviews. My interview went pretty good but I still got rejected for the role. No feedback was provided after that either.
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Leetcode question was tricky related to linked list
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
Interview
I received a Online Assessment that contained a Technical Portion, which was two questions and 90 minutes to solve them. Then a Work Simulation which had a time limit of 4 hours. After that I moved onto the Onsite Interview which consisted of three rounds over a 3 hour period.
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Given a string "abaca" minimum number of operations to make the string empty.
example:
operation 1: remove b -> aaca
operation 2: remove c -> aaa
operation 3: since all the a's are together remove all a's at once
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2023
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For Contractors :
Round 1 : Online Assessment
2 hackerrank questions with language of your choice
Round 2: Front-end question HTML based
Round 3: Design question
Question related to Map
Round 4 : Hiring manager Round
Behavioral round + system Design
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Question 1
Self introduction
Behavioral Questions : Amazon Leadership principles, Answer in STAR format
Cannot disclose exact questions but leetcode medium questions