Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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30 mins round with data structures and algorithms question and some resume related questions. Asked about the toughest questions I solved recently. time complexity and space complexity, how to optimize the solution
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Jul 2022
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Straightforward, somehow I managed to skip the tech screening and was directly interviewing virtual on-site with 4 rounds. Three were Leetcode medium questions from Blind 75, Last round was System Design with Hiring Manager.
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1. LRU Cache 2. Merge intervals (different variation) 3. TinyURL system design 4. dont remember but it was easy
phone interview, was asked a simple coding question but then at the end of 5 mins added another question which was more difficult and not so sure why that happened