Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 42 days.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2010
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The hiring process is one of the quickest I've seen. Campus Interviews were held for 3 days consecutively and the decision was made 2 days after the 3 days of interviews. The interviewers were really nice people and help you with the problems.
An important advice would be if you do a mistake during a question, make sure you point that out and tell the interviewer why this is not a good solution and propose an alternative solution. This was something appreciated by my interviewers.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2010
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I had a phone interview, but then i didn't hear back from the recruiter for 3 weeks. Then after 3 weeks I sent a mail to recruiter asking the status and then she replied i'll have another round of phone screen. had 2nd phone screen this week. Now waiting for the results.