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"Senior software engineers are the most experienced member of a software team and usually carry the most responsibility and authority of that team. Because of this, interviews will be designed to find candidates who have expert knowledge of the field and years of experience as a software engineer. Expect to be asked tough technical questions and to give examples of previous projects that you have worked on."

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Lots and lots of behavioral questions. Think of a time in your life where you got your way, didn't get your way, impressed a customer, let somebody down. All of these will tie back to Amazon's Leadership principles, so you can prepare stories ahead of time relevant to the principles and tell them during a relevant question.
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Senior Software Engineer SD3

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Nov 22, 2021

Lots and lots of behavioral questions. Think of a time in your life where you got your way, didn't get your way, impressed a customer, let somebody down. All of these will tie back to Amazon's Leadership principles, so you can prepare stories ahead of time relevant to the principles and tell them during a relevant question.

One of the interviewers asked me to implement a file system. What was in particular frustrating is that he left is so open ended as to the level of detail required, yet expected a specific answer and was unhappy that I took a different approach.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 3, 2012

One of the interviewers asked me to implement a file system. What was in particular frustrating is that he left is so open ended as to the level of detail required, yet expected a specific answer and was unhappy that I took a different approach.

* Takes a list of strings representing either operators or operands and returns * the result of a reverse-polish notation calculation on them * Sample output: * {"4", "1", "+", "2", "*"} -> ((4 + 1) * 2) -> 10 * {"5", "8", "4", "/", "+"} -> (5 + (8 / 4)) -> 7 * Supported operators are +, -, *, and / * @param ops the series of operators and operands to operate on * @return a Double equal to the result of the calculation * @throws IllegalArgumentException if ops does not represent a well-formed RPN expression * @throws ArithmeticException if the expression generates an arithmetic error, such as dividing by zero */
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Mar 9, 2017

* Takes a list of strings representing either operators or operands and returns * the result of a reverse-polish notation calculation on them * Sample output: * {"4", "1", "+", "2", "*"} -> ((4 + 1) * 2) -> 10 * {"5", "8", "4", "/", "+"} -> (5 + (8 / 4)) -> 7 * Supported operators are +, -, *, and / * @param ops the series of operators and operands to operate on * @return a Double equal to the result of the calculation * @throws IllegalArgumentException if ops does not represent a well-formed RPN expression * @throws ArithmeticException if the expression generates an arithmetic error, such as dividing by zero */

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