Amazon Software Development Engineer Intern interview questions
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There were three rounds. The first round was an online assessment. The second round was a behavioral simulation of the work environment. The third round was a live interview. The interviewer asked me two technical questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
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There were three automated tests.
Debug section - easy
Leetcode - one easy, one medium. 11/11 tests passed then 7/11 for medium.
Behavioral - answer based on leadership principles.
Video interview - leetcode easy had to whiteboard my thinking process, the interviewer was very nice.
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Debug section - easy
Leetcode - one easy, one medium. 11/11 tests passed then 7/11 for medium.
Behavioral - answer based on leadership principles.
Video interview - leetcode easy had to whiteboard my thinking process, the interviewer was very nice.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
Interview
SDE Intern interviews at Amazon consist of 1 Online Assessment (OA) followed by 2 Tech Interview Rounds upon selection.
1. OA round has 2 DSA questions (both needed to be solved fully to get selected) along with questions on CS fundamentals, logical aptitude and workstyles assessments
2. Each Tech round consists of 2-3 DSA questions. Level of questions can be Leetcode medium to Leetcode Hard Level. Emphasis is more on Trees, Graphs, linked lists and relevant Data structures.
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Question 1
One of the multiple questions I faced was like :
Given a sorted dictionary of a language having N words and k starting alphabets of standard dictionary. Find the order of characters in the given language.