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Software Developer Interview Experience

April 1, 2022
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Process

Initial interview: ~30 minutes.

Second interview: 1 hour coding assessment.

Final interview: 4 hours, broken into 4 interviews:

  • One with the hiring manager
  • One coding section
  • One architecture section
  • One personality section

Questions

Tell me about a time you could not deliver a project on time.

Coding assessment: Write a function that, given an array of entities and an integer N, keeps looping around the array, removing the Nth remaining entity until only one entity remains. Return the remaining entity. (This may be the Birthday boy test).

Example: Input: 2 elements, example loop below ...A E....B ..D.C

Loop 1: Step 2 elements, flag B ...A E....[B] ..D.C

Loop 2: Step 2 elements, flag D ...A E....x .[D]C

Loop 3: Step 2 elements, Flag A ...[A] E....x ..x.C

Loop 4: Step 2 elements, Flag E (NOT C, since B no longer exists) ....x... [E]..x ..x.C..

Output: C

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 148 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

7%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Developer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive45%
Neutral39%
Negative16%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Developer interview process in United States.

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