Amazon Software Engineer II SDE2 interview questions
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Primero, entrevista con el recruiter en la que me describieron el proceso de entrevista de amazon y me dieron material preparatorio. Después, 5 sesiones de preguntas relacionadas con los leadership principles de amazon sobre mis experiencias profesionales, seguidas de problemas de programación o de diseño de sistema.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Dec 2020
Interview
1. Online OA (Rather difficult, did not get all test cases for 1 of 2 questions)
2. Recuriter screening
3. 30 min Technical phone screening (easy-med leetcode)
4. Final round:
- 1. System design (design a system for coupons)
- 2. Algo round (Flood fill)
- 3. Algo round (Implement API for sorting (can use heaps), organize data based on friends list and return as array of objects)
- 4. Algo round (Find biggest n running sum, dynamic programming question)
Downgraded to Sde1 offer
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Question 1
Algo/Datastructure + System design
Each interviewer asked LP questions for the last 10/15 minutes. Can easily prepare for this part if you can figure out what principle they are asking you about
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Oct 2021
Interview
online coding challenge, 2 questions,
followed by multiple choice on how you work and behavioral.
final interview is 4 coding challenges virtual onsite
A lot of leadership principle per interviewer and then more questions based on system design, maintainability
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Question 1
1) parenthesis questions see if it is a valid string
2) lots of leadership principle questions. know all 14 and reference some of them