Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Guwahati) in Aug 2021
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It was an on campus drive. Firstly there was an online assessment round. Out of 60 students 20 were shortlisted for the interviews including me.
There were 3 interview rounds 2 were technical and one was an HR round.
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Question 1
1. Boundary traversal of a binary tree.
2. Binary tree to a singly linked list.
2 online assessments, then an interview where they asked behavioral and technical questions. Behavioral questions seemed to be looking for whether or not you act according to Amazon's leadership principles, so read those. Technical question had to do with traversing a tree using depth-first search.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Mar 2022
Interview
Firstly introduction happened, then some Comp Science Fundamental questions based on OOPS, OS, Networking and DBMS. Then DSA questions were based on Trees and DP on Strings, and one was based on Tries.
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Question 1
LCA - Trees
Shortest Anagram on the string
Tries famous question