Amazon Software Development Engineer Intern interview questions
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Software Development Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer Intern roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2021
Interview
3 rounds of OA: 20 min to debug 7 short functions, then 2 LC easy/medium questions and a leadership principles survey, and then a workplace simulation. Final round was a virtual interview with an engineer. Half behavioral questions and then 1 LC easy/medium question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two sorted linked lists, verify if a tree is a subtree of another tree, and a more involved variant of 2sum
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2020
Interview
There were 3 stages:
1. Online coding exercise to spot mistakes
2. Online coding questions (similar to those you'd find on platforms like leetcode)
3. 2 interviews with SDEs (1 coding question + a few behavioural questions)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding questions are leetcode-type questions. Behavioural questions are centred around examples of how you've displayed Amazon's Leadership Principles
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2021
Interview
The process was really straightforward. I applied a long time ago and after a couple months I got an email that I was selected to take part in a 3-part "pre-interview" selection process.
First part was basic code debugging (I didn't finish all of them), the second was a bit more challenging (classic interview-level algorithm creation questions), and the third was a really unique job/workday simulation that I truly didn't know what to make heads or tails of.
After completing the 3 parts, I was asked for my availability to schedule an interview. Interviewer was really nice, very low-pressure, and understanding when I made silly mistakes in the code I was writing and worked to point out errors so I could fix them. Very down-to-earth interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Don't think I'm allowed to get into specifics, but every interview question was based a lot more in your understanding how and when to use certain data structures rather than your ability to come up with complex algorithms.