{"id":8077,"date":"2018-01-19T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/must-read-amazon-interview-questions-for-software-engineers-answered-8077\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:54:20","slug":"must-read-amazon-interview-questions-for-software-engineers-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/must-read-amazon-interview-questions-for-software-engineers-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read: Amazon interview questions for software engineers answered!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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You may be an engineer <\/a>with a genius for software, but that may not be enough to help you join the Amazon ranks. For the retail giant\u2019s interview questions for a software engineer <\/a>span the gamut \u2013 taking into account your technical skills for sure, but also looking at other facets of your personality. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sobit Akhmedov, a software engineer who was recently contacted by a technical recruiter from Amazon, on his blog writes that the whole process \u201cfrom being contacted to signing the contract took two months\u201d. His three rounds of technical problems included object-related design, an algorithmic question and analyzing complexity for the solution given in the previous problem. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s no set pattern for what the Amazon software engineer interview questions may be. We suggest you try these tips to ensure that you make the cut and land your dream job. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure you practice for the interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It may seem like you don\u2019t need it, but a mock interview helps you learn how to answer difficult questions, work on your communication skills, develop interview strategies, and reduces your stress. Tigran Sloyan, CEO of CodeFights, advises uses real interview questions to practice. \u201cThe #1 mistake developers make when preparing for technical interviews is not practicing using real interview questions. As a great developer you often think ‘this is what I do for a living and I am good at it’ so it\u2019s tempting to walk into an interview without much practice\u2026[but] you need deliberate practice using the types of questions you are going to be tested on,\u201d he says. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do your homework and come prepared<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyone expects an engineer who\u2019s applied for a job with Amazon to be up to speed when it comes to technical skills. But don\u2019t just rely on your skill set as an engineer to get you through. In an article, Dan Melnick, Chief Operating Officer<\/a> at Reverb.com, says, “If you can nail the technical parts of an interview, such as a pairing code challenge, that\u2019s great. But it doesn\u2019t end there. The best candidates\u2014who eventually go on to make the best team members\u2014come prepared with smart questions that show that they\u2019ve done their homework. Not only can this demonstrate that you understand tech\u2019s broader impact on the company, it also showcases your communication skills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show off the strategist in you<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr John Sullivans, a professor of management at San Francisco State University and an acclaimed HR thought leader in Silicon Valley, in an article\u00a0on Harvard Business Review, wrote: \u201cIn a 2013 Management Research Group survey, when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviours that were most critical to their organisation\u2019s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic.\u201d Refael Zikavashvili, cofounder at Pramp, which offers code interview prep, agrees. \u201cThe number one mistake software engineers make on their technical interviews is that they jump into code before thinking through the solution and explaining its correctness to their interviewer. To succeed in technical interviews, software engineers must break down the problem first and clearly communicate their approach to solving it prior to proceeding to implementation,\u201d he advises. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t be afraid to say you don\u2019t know<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s impossible for any one person to be a know-it-all. Saying a confident \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d tells the interviewer that you\u2019re upfront and willing to admit to your drawbacks. Interview Cake Founder at Parker Phinney believes that \u201cnot saying ‘I don’t know’ [is a mistake]\u2026. Great candidates know there’ll always be some things they don’t know, so they just give a confident, non-apologetic \u2018I don’t know.\u2019 (Bonus: throw in a ‘but if I had to guess, I’d say X because Y’).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you must know<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Keen to see what kind of questions you might come up against when interviewing for the position of a software engineer at Amazon. Have a look and stay prepared: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Given a list of integers, find the highest product you can get from three of the integers.<\/span>
\u2022 Give an overview of the Amazon technology stack. <\/span>
\u2022 Print a tree in level order.<\/span>
\u2022 Implement “File” Java class.<\/span>
\u2022 Write a function to see if a binary tree is superbalanced.<\/span>
\u2022 Given a binary tree and an integer S, print all distinct paths from root to leaves which sum to S. Describe the algorithm and implement it.<\/span>
\u2022 Design a task execution service, which accepts tasks from clients and runs them and returns result. <\/span>
\u2022 Write a program to find the longest common subsequence in a sequence.<\/span>
\u2022 How would you create an array given two sorted arrays?<\/span>
\u2022 Integers are arriving at a rate of one on a socket stream. At any given time print k largest numbers. Describe an efficient algorithm and implement it in language of your choice.<\/span>
\u2022 How do you find phone numbers of a given format inside large number of different HTML files?<\/span>
\u2022 Given a stream of characters and a set of characters, find the shortest sequence in the stream containing all characters in the set.<\/span>
\u2022 If a linked list is a loop, kth nearest points, sort two sorted linked list into one.<\/span>
\u2022 Write a function for doing an in-place shuffle of a list.<\/span>
\u2022 How do you design a TinyURL for a website? Design an algorithm and write sample code which generates TinyURL for a website.<\/span>
\u2022 Think that 25k jobs are being applied for per second. Scale in such a way so we able to process as many jobs as possible per second. <\/span>
\u2022 Design a function that counts the number of occurrences of every character in a string.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more tips on how to interview at Amazon, click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article has been compiled from various sources including company websites, corporate review sites, online discussion forums and knowledge sharing platforms.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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