Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2022
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1st round was an online coding challenge.
If we clear it, after few the final interview will be scheduled. Which has 3 rounds. In every round they check your coding skills and behavioral skills.
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Coding challenges were given through out the interview process.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Boise, ID) in Feb 2022
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It was very extensive and felt exhausting. There was a resume screen, then a coding assessment, then a work-style assessment, then an interview with an engineer over Zoom. It took weeks in between steps and felt like I was waiting forever.
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Coding Assessment was LC easy/medium and then Final Round was LRU Cache.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Mar 2022
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After completing 90 minute algorithm task I was invited to 5 hour interview. I did 4 different interview with different persons from same domain. All interviewers except one very helpful and smiling.
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* find the all possible words in a 5x5 char array. assume that there is a valid word list, word chars can be any directions.
* design system question: design a system like pastebin
* coding question: design a library to find/filter files in system using an object oriented programming language