Amazon Software Developer Interview Questions
Go Back1. How would you define software configuration management?
2. How much do you know about object-oriented programming?
3. What are some of the testing and debugging processes you use in your software development?
4. What are some of the QA processes you are familiar with and have worked with in the past?
5. Here at Amazon, we use Agile and Waterfall. Are you familiar with these software development methodologies and, if so, which of these do you prefer?
6. Can you describe a challenging software development project you recently completed and the results?
7. What are some of the software design patterns that you use, and in what situations do you use them?
8. What are some of the types of development projects you have worked on in your past positions?
9. I've heard applications referred to as both software and programs. Which terminology do you use, and how do these differ?
10. What software development process do you prefer to use?
11. How would you differentiate between Quality Assurance and Quality Control as you believe it is implemented here at Amazon?
12. Talk about the differences between structured English and Pseudo Code?
13. As part of software development, were you involved with working on functional and non-functional requirements?
14. Explain how duplicates are removed from an array without using a library.
15. Prior to starting any software development project here at Amazon, we perform a feasibility study. What is your opinion on feasibility studies, and when should it be done?
16. What method do you use to find the missing number in an integer array of 1 to 100?
17. What is software scope, and what does the process involve?
18. Do you have a preferred language that you like to write programming algorithms?
19. If hired by Amazon, one of your tasks will be to debug yours and other developers' code. As a software developer, explain the meaning of debugging, and why it is used?
20. What is verification and validation, and why it is important?
21. At a high level, describe what the software development life cycle process is.
22. Can you list the important categories of software development for me?
23. Amazon software developers use a variety of different sorting algorithms. Tell me the difference between a Comparison and Non-Comparison Sorting Algorithm.
24. Describe how do you implement an insertion sort algorithm. What is the easiest way to do it?
25. Can you walk me through the meaning behind a Depth First Search Algorithm for a binary tree?
26. What is your experience with implementing a Binary Search Algorithm without recursion?
27. How do you approach implementing an LRU Cache in your favorite programming language?
28. Based on your experience, what's the best way to find a node that begins with two single link lists?
29. How do you find the starting node of a cycle if a link contains a cycle?
30. Here at Amazon, our developers work with Java quite a bit. Tell me how you find duplicate numbers in an array in Java containing multiple duplicates?