Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Apr 2022
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The whiteboard problems were unnervingly simple. Make sure you are maintaining clean code throughout and think out loud. They are not looking for a complete solution but your process. Be sure to not make ANY assumptions.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2022
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Behavioral was quite easy and straighht forward. You have to pass the OA before reaching this stuff. After you have a technical interview where they ask you a few leetcode problems.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2022
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Approached by recruiter. Scheduled an online assessment to be completed in one week. Questions on the online assessment were very long. Needed to spend 20 minutes of time to read and understand the questions fully.
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Online assessment on Hackerrank. Practice sliding window problems and prefix sum problems.