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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Mar 23, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      The overall interview process was easy, but very different from others I have experienced. It consisted of three total steps after I was invited to begin the process: - 1: An online assessment consisting of logic/general computer science multiple choice questions and a Java code debugging section (looking for simple things like missing parentheses, incorrect boolean operators, et cetera). - 2: A long online assessment. The first section consisted of a workplace simulation where you are set up in a fake workplace environment and receive emails, instant messages, assignments, etc that you then have to answer multiple choice questions about to indicate how you would handle them. The second section consisted of three semi-difficult coding questions, which would have been a lot more manageable except for the fact I didn't budget time well. I actually didn't end up finishing the last problem (I had most of a solution that didn't compile but that also blatantly wasn't the right way to handle the task) and so I was really surprised to move on to the final round. - After a while, I was invited out to Seattle to interview onsite at the Amazon headquarters. In the email they informed me what I'd be doing while I was out there, and I thought there was some type of error because the layout of the interview event included only one half an hour long interview and then the rest of the time was spent doing things like listening to various teams present their projects and touring the office. I ended up finding out that this was a special interview event for people who performed particularly well on the coding challenge so the interview was essentially to ensure you didn't cheat, and that's exactly what it seemed like. My interviewer essentially just had me explain the 3 solutions I had and asked me to optimize them and when I couldn't even think of how to do that in the moment he just smiled and moved on. The onsite process was very easy and they were very generous with hotel reservations and meal reimbursements. After a few days I received my offer and ultimately decided not to take it, but the overall process was confusingly simple! My main complain was that my recruiter was pretty non-responsive about making my travel reservations (I kept asking for my flight information and ultimately only got it a few days before I was leaving) and that it all seemed very depersonalized... my request to onsite interview was addressed to "Dear <First Name>". It was a really interesting process but just very, very odd.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Coding questions: - Find the longest palindromic substring. - Return the k-closest points to the center of a cartesian plane given an array of coordinates. - Create and return a deep copy of a singly linked list where each node also has an additional pointer to a random node in the list.
      1 Answer
      8

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      • Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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