Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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got online test link next day of cold applying (no referral)
then got an interview a week or so later (w 2 weeks to prep)
really good interview experience, only problem i personally felt was my lack of backend experience (the position asked for it, and i have frontend exp)
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Merge k sorted queues (DSA)
others too - like database experience
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
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3 rounds 2 coding one LP The coding interview was easy with some medium LC question the LP question go In dept of what you know. The inter view was 3 hours long on amazons videocall software.
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One situation when you had to solve a problem quickly
They first started the interview by asking about me. After a quick introduction, they moved on to two behavioral questions. After that, they moved on to two leetcode style questions, both leetcode easy. Finally, they asked if I had any questions.
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Question 1
They asked how to find the number of islands in a matrix of water and land.