Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2024
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3 interviews in a back to back format (the loop). They asked LPs (behavioral questions) and technical questions, and they were split pretty evenly in each interview on what they asked. This was for an AI/ML Software Engineering position.
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First interview's technical question was about LRU cache, second was a dfs on packet launches, and third was a really weird bash script thing to return locations of certain files based on it's suffix. Wasn't crazy difficult but the questions were so weirdly stated and out of place that I was caught off guard.
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Online assessment(3 hour plus) then the final loop(3 rounds) - 1 behavioral 100% bar raiser + 2 coding & behavioral mix. Coding were leetcode style (2 mediums and 1 easy)