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 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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Amazon HR contacted me and scheduled a phone interview. One of the development manager interviewed me, he gave very detailed explanation about the division and then asked some questions. He was polite.
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At least one question involving a hash table. Amazon is famous for asking questions about hash tables. Either they ask about the hash table constructs in various programming languages (like Java and Perl, hash vs. map, etc..), or a coding problem where the hash table affords an O(N) or O(1) solution.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2012
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Amazon HR contacted me and scheduled a phone interview. One of the development managers interviewed me, he gave very detailed explanation about the division and then asked some questions about past experience. then came the data structure and algorithm questions. Every question asked was already posted on glassdoor. but i didn't had enough time to refresh my memory on them. i would let anyone applying to prepare at least 1 or 2 months before the interview.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2012
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The last interviewer seems busy, talking to her colleagues, and was not paying attention to me. That was a downer. All three interviewers were Chinese. Questions were easy, but I had bad cellphone reception that day. I guess it was my problem.