Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE I) 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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The Amazon interview process starts with a scheduling call where the recruiter provides interview materials. The Online Assessment (OA) includes two medium-hard coding questions and two harder ones. It also features an extensive CI/CD query, concluding without a follow-up.
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how do you configure caching and Spring Boot application
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2024
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Easy until the final round interview. First time the guy stood me up and I needed to reschedule. The HR guy was apologetic but impersonal. I felt the bureaucracy of the large company like they didn’t care about me as an interviewee.
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Write a Microsoft paint esque program that fills neighboring cells of a 2D array with the same number to a new number. Breadth first search question, I was rusty on that data structure. Interviewer was nice but didn’t make me want to be a programmer.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Haifa) in Jun 2024
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the Online assesment is comprised of a techincal part (2 programming question done on hacker rank) and the second part is more about soft skills and how you can intgrate into amazons values (leadership principiles)
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given a string return the smallest lexicoragpical palindrom which can be created by all of those palindromes