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. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2020
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Interview process is very difficult and its understandable, it takes a lot of time to prepare for Data Structures and Algorithms, knowing Amazon's Leadership Principles is also a must to get through the interview
Three phase with 1st being an online leetcode style coding quiz with several MC questions and 2 long coding questions to do in 70 mins. Then part 2 was a day in the life style testing to see you meet the company's customer service mindeset (2hr). Part 3 is live 3 back-to-back live coding tests with current engineers (45mins each).
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Question 1
one of the live coding questions was to design a DFS
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Four Technical Interviews
FIRST ROUND Asked medium leetcode questions and behavioral questions.
Trees, graphs, Lists.
SECOND ROUND Asked medium leetcode question and behavioral questions. BINARY trees. Linkedlists
THIRD ROUND Asked medium leetcode question and behavioral questions. GRAPHS, QUEUE'