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 interview process consists of 2 OA rounds, a telephonic interview only if your answers in OA is not that good, and 3 technical interview rounds and if you pass then the HR round is for salary negotiation.
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Write a program to find the winner of the tic tac toe game.
Friendly and easy to talk to interviewers. Mostly similar to leetcode medium or hard questions. 2 to 3 leadership principles per round. Hiring manager is focused only on past experience and leadership principle.
First, you have a phone interview in which they ask questions based on leadership principles (e.g.: Give me an example of a situation when you disagreed with a colleague, how did you deal with that?) and an algorithmic problem. Then you have 4 interviews, one is a system design and the rest are similar to the phone interview.
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Some algorithmic problems that you can solve using BFS.