Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I am preparing the interview right now. I already passed the OA part and am preparing for the 3-round loop right now. The OA part was not easy. They had lots of requirements.
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Is there any time that you faced hardship in your life and how did you overcome those?
Received recruiter email with instructions on how to prepare for the online assessment.
OA was the standard for Amazon, two coding questions followed by work simulation (system design focused) and then behavioural.
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Given two lists of shift durations and job durations. Calculate how many jobs would be done after each shift.
Restart if all jobs are done in the next shift.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX)
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Pretty standard "big tech" interview. Leetcode screening interview (automated through a service). For the final loop: leetcode style style coding interview, system design interview, a couple behavioral interviews. There is one "bar raiser" interview; just make sure you tie in your story to an Amazon Leadership principle and you are golden on this one
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Design a system that can handle inserting millions of products. There may not be a way to distinguish duplicates