Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2024
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The least personal experience I've ever had - I didn't get to hear or speak to an actual human recruiter at any point throughout the process.
After submitting my resume I received an online hackerrank assessment which had 2 parts and was about a leetcode easy-medium.
There were 2 more depressing parts which felt dystopic - in the first you have a simulated email inbox where youre receiving communication regarding a project and you rank what you would and wouldnt do in every instance,
and in the second you're asked very strange questions and need to rank what you think about them.
Overall an extremely uncomfortable and cold experience.
After passing the assessment you get to schedule a face to face interview with a Sr engineer(and often times a shadow),
The interviewer clearly has to read questions off of a screen and then write down your responses.
After that you have a coding exercise, which in my case .
After doing well there and getting good feedback I received an automated email saying I will not be progressing and providing no feedback whatsoever.
I went into this without wanting to actually work for Amazon and just as a way to see how their recruitment works and I was somehow even furthermore disappointed.
Overall just a very robotic, cold and distant experience.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to balance between a correct implementation and delivering what was requested
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX) in Feb 2022
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The interview process involved 3 rounds. One is online testing round, second is technical interview round and 3rd is behavioural round. First round was an online testing round and second round was for 45 mins with the interviewer asking how the results previous coding question was solved, what is the time and space complexity. And after that a new coding question was given to be solved in front of the interviewer.
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Question 1
They gave me a coding question and asked me how better can the solution be optimized and what is the space complexity?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2024
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Cuatro entrevistas técnicas con preguntas sobre los leadership principles de Amazon. Cada entrevista dura una hora y siguen el mismo formato. Mucho énfasis en las preguntas sobre los principios de liderazgo