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Amazon SDE (Software Development Engineer) Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 8 Mar 2023

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Amazon SDE (Software Development Engineer) Interview Experiences

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I appeared for an interview in Dec 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Convert expression to post-fix
  • Ans. 

    Convert an expression to post-fix notation.

    • Start with an empty stack.

    • Scan the expression from left to right.

    • If the scanned character is an operand, output it.

    • If the scanned character is an operator, pop two operands from stack, output them in post-fix notation and push the result back.

    • Repeat until the end of expression.

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  • Q2. Maximum continous sum in an array of integers
  • Ans. 

    Find the maximum continuous sum in an array of integers.

    • Use Kadane's algorithm to find the maximum subarray sum in linear time complexity.

    • Initialize two variables, one for current maximum sum and another for overall maximum sum.

    • Iterate through the array and update the variables accordingly.

    • Example: For array [-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4], the maximum continuous sum is 6 (from index 3 to 6).

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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: I interned at Amazon, which allowed me to skip round 1.
Tips: Just go through questions on geeksforgeeks and practice on hackerrank, almost all of the questions will come from them.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The discussion was mainly focused on my interests and what all I had learned from my previous experiences.
Tips: You should show your passion for the technology here. What fascinates you the most in tech. Are you a curious one. Don't try to fake here as it might backfire.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: 2 programming questions.
Tips: If you have give a sincere effort in practicing to solve algorithmic problems you should be good.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I had gone through this code on geeksforgeeks, so I had a basic idea of the approach and hence I was able to solve it. This round was taken by the manager and we mostly discussed my interests.
Tips: A genuine interest in any particular field will be of great help.

College Name: IIT

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Questions based on resume and coding questions
  • Q2. Questions from various courses I took which I mentioned in my resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Out of 20 MCQ's ,I think I solved 13-15 MCQ's Correctly. I solved easy MCQ's first and spent sometime on tough one's.
MCQ's were simple to tough I/O questions ,OS Questions etc.
In coding round they asked one D.P problem and one problem related to stack . I solved the stack question. So I can say
I did OK on this round and got selected to Interview.
Tips: Get comfortable with Data structures and Algorithms, and also have some basic idea of OS,DBMS.
Duration: 1:30 minute
Total Questions: 22

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The Interviewer was friendly and first he asked questions about my projects, previous internship etc .
He then gave me a question related to B-Tree and asked me to tell the algorithm. First I gave naive solution, then he told me to improve efficiency. Though I took some time, I eventually arrived at a efficient solution. He asked to code that algo in any programming language. so I coded the algo in Java within 10 minutes. He went through my code thoroughly and corrected some minor mistakes. After this he asked if I have any questions for him, I then asked some questions related to work profile. After this round I was called for another techincal round. This round lasted for 50 minutes.
Tips: I prepared from geeks for geeks for interviews and I think it helps a lot. Think out loud as Interviewer also observes your thought process.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round was a breeze as the Interviewer was very warm and he asked me various questions related to the courses
I took. I think he asked questions related to prob theory,OS,discrete Maths etc. I answered most of them correctly.
This round lasted for 45 minutes.
Tips: As said above think out loud and have a good presence of mind. It helps if you revise the courses mentioned in your resume.

General Tips: Practice programming a lot, preferably from Hacker rank etc. Come prepared for the Interview.
Don't panic and have a fresh mind for interview
Skills: Programming, problem solving
Duration: 2 Months
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: It's a good company,offering a decent stipend and one more thing it's in Hyderabad which is my hometown.
Funny Moments: Nothing that I remember of.

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Amazon Interview FAQs

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