Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) II interview questions
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Interview process :
Call with HR and assessment email
after I passed in the assessment got a call to schedule my technical rounds
Round 1: Two coding questions
Round 2: System desgin, coding and oral techincal questions
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2022
Interview
It was an online assessment with two data structure questions. one regarding priority queue and other sorting. The whole process took around 2 hrs. After the two coding questions, there was a survey regarding what technology to use (what kind of a database to use) given a scenarior.
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Question 1
use priority queue to find the kth minimum element
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Monica, CA) in Mar 2024
Interview
4 Interviews 30 min technical 30 min Leadership principles. 3 interviews had coding and one was System Design in technical. The coding Questions are not typical Leetcode questions, it was mostly some application level and Java 8 application questions.