Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview questions
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Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 75 days.
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First interview they will ask you about data structures, behavioral questions and a coding question. They provide you with material to prepare for the questions. The first interview was virtual and I was interviewed by one person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a linked list ?
What is the difference between linked list and an array?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2022
Interview
Weird questions related to management and how I handled some situations at my previous job. In detal, borderline NDA
Interviewer was young and in unexperienced.
Finally the coding question was not a discussion but the intrerviewer steered my code in particular direction, as if he knows only one possible solution by heart and wasn't open to help or abstracy thinking.
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How would you handle a situation in which such and such (e.g. there was a conflict in the team)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services in May 2022
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Processo direto, com pequena apresentação da vaga e modo de trabalho e um algoritmo para resolver um problema proposto, em qualquer linguagem, envolvendo estrutura de dados e custo de memoria, processamento onde deveria resolver de acordo com premissas que o entrevistador ia fornecendo (sugestão: faça perguntas pertinentes ao problema)