Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokio) in Aug 2022
Interview
1. Online assessment test using their online coding tool. 2 Problems in total for 90 minutes. 2. Phone interview with recruiter. STAR method, amazon leadership principal. 3. Online technical interview with team. LeetCode style interview 4. ....
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1. LeetCode style problem 2. Just behavioural questions 3. Live code, LeetCode style.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2022
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me via email, but would only speak to me after I completed the online assessment (OA) which consisted of a coding piece and a workstyle simulation. OA was two leetcode style questions, one medium, one hard. Workstyle simulation was straightforward. I passed the OA well enough that I got moved directly to the final onsite, which consisted of 4 interviews over 5 hours, each of which had a technical half and a behavioral half. 3 of the technical were coding with syntax highlighting (can't run code) and 1 was system design.
One interviewer didn't like my behavioral answers so he proceeded to undercut every approach I took to the coding question resulting in me not getting any code down in the allotted time.
Had a total of 4 points of contact from HR, which was quite messy. My main recruiter was exceedingly disorganized. She sent me novels regarding how to prep for the onsite, but much of the info she provided was inaccurate or outdated. Example - Amazon recently added two new leadership principles, which were covered in a module on the jobs site, but not in the PDFs sent to me by my recruiter. Additionally, she initially described the onsite technical interviews as though all 4 were going to be system design with no coding. I had to correct her on this since that didn't seem to make any sense.
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Give me an example of a time when something you tried to accomplish and failed.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2022
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Coding assessment link was sent, completed the first problem with no issues, coded the second problem and encountered issues with their assessment program... had to write workaround code to get it to compile properly.
Video interviewed with 4 people, first interviewer kept disconnecting from wifi and eventually had to interview me with half the time available and no video. Second interviewer just did not care whatsoever. Third interviewer was the only decent interviewer. Fourth interview was accompanied by a trainee and felt a bit unprofessional.
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System Design question about an issue currently being faced at Amazon