Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2022
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For 2 years, passed all OA but still got rejected twice. Never know why didn't move on to the phone interview phase. Recruiters are not very professional. OA questions are also difficult to solve in a reasonable time. Unless you know the exact approach with best time space complexity, you will failed.
I was initially sent an email from HR followed by a brief phonecall to discuss the position. Required to complete an online assessment following this phonecall, which was several coding challenge problems.
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Could you talk more about your experience when you worked at ___?
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All that matters here is only data structures. You must be really good at writing error-free and optimized codes that will handle all the boundary cases as well !
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This round consisted of 20 aptitude questions and 2 coding questions. The aptitude questions were easy and the coding questions were
find the maximum sum of subsequence in an array such that no two elements are adjacent
there was something wrong in the question and so they asked us to leave out this question !
They shortlisted 25 students and I was one among them