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      Graduate Software Development Engineer Interview

      29 Oct 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England

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      Graduate Software Development Engineer Interview

      1 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cape Town
      No offer
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England)

      Interview

      I had a programming test first on Codility. This was hard (programming flood fill more or less, I did it in Python, but the time pressure is very stressful - be prepared to swear). I got through to the on-site interviews which they paid for (I had to travel internationally). I had 4 interviews in the day, the first was an overview of my experience and went very well, it was just a really nice discussion. The second was regarding my programming experience and discussing projects I had implemented this also went well. The third was more technical, with some questions about threads and program design. This I struggled a little on as whilst I am familiar with the theory, full implementation of parallelisation is quite rare in Python. The fourth was on solving some algorithm problems. I struggled on the last problem, converting numbers to written numbers i.e. "100" to "One Hundred" and all the complexities of this. This one interview went slightly badly (and the interviewers were much more hostile) and unfortunately this overrode all other interviews.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Implement flood fill
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Design threading/parallelisation for a traffic lights system
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Write a program to convert numbers to written numbers (i.e. "12343" to "Twelve Thousand, Three Hundred And Forty Three"
      Answer question
      10
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Sept 2025

      Interview

      I had a first phone screen, which was an hour long, had 15 minutes of Hr questions based on Leadership Principles, then 45 minutes of real-time coding problems, You need to know a bit much about DSA to be able to pass the coding challenges, you must think out loud.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is the difference between a binary tree and a binary search tree?
      Answer question

      Graduate Software Development Engineer Interview

      26 Aug 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon (Berlin)

      Interview

      They asked basic questions about technical stuff, then another purely technical round where I was given one main coding problem, followed by 4 follow-up questions/variations based on the initial problem.

      Graduate Software Development Engineer Interview

      27 Jul 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      First stage was the OA and workstyles assessment. After getting through it I faced the phone screen interview and I didn't get through it. The coding question was a pretty standard product categorisation coding problem