Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) 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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Asked only one question.. That went on for an hour..
As I mentioned that was the question.. But I was unable to solve it well.. I tried to make some ways to reach the solution.. But the interviewer was not satisfied with my solution.
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Question 1
Number of nodes between left leaf node to right leaf node
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2021
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There was some basic to advanced level technical questions, overall it was pretty smooth interview experience.Some of the questions were related to my college projects.After that there was som Hr questions.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Dec 2021
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There was a 2 question Open Assessment coding in any language which was followed by a workplace simulation. If you passed these then 3 rounds of behavioral questions paired with coding questions is the final step.
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Question 1
Shortest path from leaf node to another leaf node in a binary tree.