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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Really friendly people. My interview consisted of recruiter screen, online assessment, and a virtual onsite. The virtual inside was 6 hours with a 1 hour break. I had 3 technical interviews, 2 algorithmic and 1 system design. The 2 behavioral interviews were on Leadership Principles.
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Given a matrix of empty or filled spaces, how can a roomba figure out the number of empty spaces
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2021
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Had a debugging assessment and coding assessment along with behavioral questions.
Passed the assessment, followed by 1 hr onsite where the discuss the assessment questions and previous experience. Everything was quick and the offer was made a week after the final interview.
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Leetcode medium question
Debuging assessment was also easy
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2022
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there was a coding test with 2 coding questions which were mostly on graphs and binary trees and there was an technical interview which was based on data structures and algorithm. he asked me about linked list and zig zag traversal
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Reverse a linked list
print all subsequences of array
zig zag traversal of array