Amazon Recruitment Questions: Interview Questions

Amazon Recruitment Questions: Interview Questions

The recruitment process of Amazon for Software Development Engineer post is quite simple in the broad view; the online assessment, technical round followed by the telephonic and HR Interview. The applicants must ensure that they should be ready for the initial stage of the on-campus recruitment stage; online assessment.

 Amazon looks for the technical as well as the leadership content candidates who can take the organizations to new levels of growth. The candidates must have to work on the core areas of the technical part, such as Debugging, coding, problem-solving, object-oriented design, data structures, Amazon Placement Mock Test Series.

The online assessment is for the candidates who have applied for the internship or the freshers' post, and the questions will be basically from three areas:

1.  Debugging:

There are approximately 7-8 questions whose output is stuck due to some errors, and the candidate will have to debug the complete code and run it. The code should have compiled, and the output would be submitted. The time duration is about 20 Minutes. The code presented will be in C, C++, or JAVA language.

2. Coding Questions:

The candidate will be provided the problems from data structure and algorithms; the code for the same has to be written. The code must be compiled successfully. The codes will present in the languages the candidates have mentioned in the resume, preferences. The coding questions from the following topics are asked in the placement examination:

1.       Graphs / Trees (For about 46% of the exam is covered with these problems)
A non-empty binary tree is given, find the maximum path sum (A path is defined as any sequence of nodes from some starting node to any node in the tree along with the parent-child connections, for the problem). The path must have at least one node and does not need to go through the root.
2.       Arrays / Strings (For about 38% of the exam is covered with these problems)
3.       Linked lists (For about 10% of the exam is covered with these problems)
4.       Search / Sort (2% of questions are asked from this topic)
5.       Stacks / Queues (2% of questions are asked from this topic)
6.       Hash tables (2% of queries, least frequent)

The system design questions such as designing Amazon Warehouse System, Amazon's database, dropbox, etc. are asked in the recruitment test.

The candidates will find the complete test pattern, Amazon Placement Test Pattern, and Syllabus.