Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Nov 2021
Interview
Had 3 rounds. First round was phone call and second round was coding and third round was face to face. It was all Leetcode questions ranging from medium to hard.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Got a message from a recruiter and then submitted an online application with the resume. After that got invited to a online assessment which had 2 coding questions, work style assessments and some technical questions.
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Question 1
Find the max difference between the least occurring and most occurring character of all the substrings of a given string
1 technical Round question asked from data structures and algorithms and some cs fundamentals. Interview round was totally smooth I did not face any difficulty. Interviewer was very friendly. He gave me some hints when I stuck in between.