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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an initial resume screening, followed by a phone screen, a potential online assessment, a series of in-person or virtual "loop" interviews where multiple interviewers evaluate your fit against Amazon's Leadership Principles using behavioral-based questions, and finally, a hiring committee review to make a decision
Started with an initial round of online coding problems, with a follow up round consisting of behavioral questions asked by multiple people as well as in person coding problems where you explain your code to someone
It was tough, the expectations are too high. Usually there are three rounds of one hour each, with an introduction section, technical questions (leetcode/something that they want) followed by Behavioral questions.
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They asked my friend about Log files and then asked her to find errors out of it