Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2017
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Standard Amazon Interview Process for SDE II candidate.
Two Online Coding Rounds (one was geenral aptitude and debugging and other one was writing a program)--> Phone Interview (45 mins) --> 3 onsite rounds 45 mins each
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Question 1
Check if parenthesis in an expression are balanced
I cleared all test cases in OA1 and OA 2 and did OA3 decently well on amazon principles. but still got rejected. OA1 is debugging round and OA2 is coding round with 2 codes to clear.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2021
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2 LeetCode Questions of medium to hard difficulty, regarding array manipulation and graphs. Tested a range of Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge. 1 about nodes and Graphs and another one about arrays