I ‘m taking a coding assessment for Amazon on Friday and I’m pretty nervous. Has anyone here ever taken it before? Any words of advice for it/technical interviews more generally?

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What kind of coding interview?

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By my understanding, it’s a take home interview with a few parts. The first is a 90 minute coding section (I’ve heard they give you 4 problems here, but it seems impossible to solve a challenging question in 22.5 minutes. There’s also a survey afterward related to how you approached the interview. Not sure about much else

Is this for an SWE role? You really have to practice for that

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Yep, it’s for an SDE role

It's a web IDE, typically 2 problems are given. They're not trivial, you'll need to be able to actually program decently well.

You write a solution, there are a few automated tests that run, you can see their inputs and expected results. If those pass you can submit it to blind testcases which dont tell you input/output, you'll only get the number you failed.

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Thanks for your advice A1.

I just took it and it didn’t go great. I got the first question right, but only got 9/21 of the background test cases, and I couldn’t get the second one (I knew how to solve it, but i couldn’t do it efficiently/a language feature worked differently than I thought).

Honestly though, I’m just proud I understood how to solve the questions, and I feel like if I could have used the Internet to check MDN, I could have come a lot closer.

Be cool

Practice on hackerrank

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