Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I ha three technical phone screens and then onsite.
Onsite interview was like a coding problem and the students are divided in to a group of 3.
We need to solve it and the engineers would come over and will ask your design and way of approach to the problem. Later some time they will call you and review the code.
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Its says team project. But remember each member is evaluated independently.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2013
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Best way to get your foot in the door is to send your resume to a recruiter. Was a little frustrated that for the first phone interview, they ended up not calling and had to reschedule a month later. The interview itself was straight-forward, no-frills, coding questions. Used a website that allows the interviewer to see code that you type up. Still in the process of interviewing.
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As one author put it, Amazon loves Object-Oriented Questions. It seems like the interviewers are more concerned with the process and quality of code over the number of questions you're able to answer, although I'm sure a good balance of both is useful.