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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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2024
Interview
4 loop interviews
1st was with a Senior Director, leadership principles(LPs) and Object Oriented System Design.
2nd was with a Manager, LPs and System Design
3rd with an engineer, Leetcode hard question
4th with an engineer, Leetcode medium question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Amazon locker?
Design a system to serve images for Amazon ecommerce website?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
It was fairly easy there was only one other person in my interview and they were asking a bunch of questions. It consisted of both technical and behavioral questions aligning to Amazon.
The recruiter was late to the meeting and was bit grumbled. Asked 2 Leetcode questions 1 Hard and 1 Medium. 1st question was around tree traversal and 2nd one was a stack one,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a binary tree, if we start a fire at any level, and the fore propagates to all its nearest neighbour in iteration, how long will it take to burn the whole tree