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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
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First round take-home coding assessment, medium difficulty, 3 questions total. Second round behavioral assessment, took a few hours, analyzed how you react in certain work settings. Final round live interview including some questions about resume etc and a coding question
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Aug 2020
Interview
two-part interview
1) THe first is about previous projects and what you've done in school/previous internships
2) technical interview: they will ask you to solve a programming interview question. The difficulty was leetcode easy
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What technologies have you used?
What is your favorite programming language and why?
They will also ask for an analysis of algorithms (time and space complexity)
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
Interview
I applied for the 6 month internship through college.
Round 1 (Online Assessment): This was conducted on AMCAT. It had 4 sections (total 2.5 hrs)-
1. Code debugging section - 7 questions, C/C++/Java (20 minutes)
2. Coding section - 2 questions (70 minutes)
3. Workstyle assessment (20 minutes)
4. Reasoning ability - 24 questions (35 minutes) - we could not skip and return to a question
38 students were selected for online interviews.
Round 2 (F2F Technical Interview): This was conducted on their own platform Amazon Chime (1 hr)-
First I had to give an introduction about myself. Then 2 coding questions were asked.
Round 3 (F2F Technical Interview): (1 hr)-
Again a brief introduction about myself. Then 2 coding questions were asked.
15 students got the offer for internship, I was one of them.
Note -
1. even if you are not able to give the correct solution, try to build your solution considering all the cases given by the interviewer. I did the same in one question and it really helped.
2. Amazon focuses only on DS Algo and their leadership principles.
3. They ask questions mostly on Tree, Graph, DP, Stack (in the decreasing order of frequency)