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One question that stood out was when they asked me to describe a previous project from work, even though they knew I had just graduated from university. It felt a bit unexpected since I didn’t have professional experience yet, but I tried to focus on my final year project and explain how it showcased the skills they were looking for
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Starling

3.4★
May 12, 2025

One question that stood out was when they asked me to describe a previous project from work, even though they knew I had just graduated from university. It felt a bit unexpected since I didn’t have professional experience yet, but I tried to focus on my final year project and explain how it showcased the skills they were looking for

Code question 1: A new Amazon intern encountered a challenging task. Currently, the intern has n integers, where the value of the ith element is represented by the array element values[i]. The intern is curious to play with arrays and subsequences and thus asks you to join him. Given n integer, array values, and an integer k, the intern needs to find the maximum and minimum median overall subsequences. Code question 2: The data science team at Amazon is facing a unique challenge. A portion of their data has gone missing from their database. However, they believe they can recover the lost data based on the following instructions: 1. The missing data is a permutation of the characters found in the string firstInfo 2. The missing data is lexicographically greater than the string secondInfo 3. The missing data is the lexigraphically smallest string that satisfies the above two conditions
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Graduate Software Developer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Nov 11, 2025

Code question 1: A new Amazon intern encountered a challenging task. Currently, the intern has n integers, where the value of the ith element is represented by the array element values[i]. The intern is curious to play with arrays and subsequences and thus asks you to join him. Given n integer, array values, and an integer k, the intern needs to find the maximum and minimum median overall subsequences. Code question 2: The data science team at Amazon is facing a unique challenge. A portion of their data has gone missing from their database. However, they believe they can recover the lost data based on the following instructions: 1. The missing data is a permutation of the characters found in the string firstInfo 2. The missing data is lexicographically greater than the string secondInfo 3. The missing data is the lexigraphically smallest string that satisfies the above two conditions

One of the online assessment was a job simulation, where I read emails and interpret data. The goal was to respond to each situation how you think would be best. It is a mix of aptitude / work ethics / technical test.
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Nov 14, 2025

One of the online assessment was a job simulation, where I read emails and interpret data. The goal was to respond to each situation how you think would be best. It is a mix of aptitude / work ethics / technical test.

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