Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I did an online assessment of AMZ. Received 2 questions in all. Each of them has 15 test cases. Only two cases are unlocked, which means you can see the specific testing inputs. But the others are locked, which only shows if you have passed the cases or not. I just got 6/15 and 0/15, and I received the rejection...
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The numbers of awards per movie are awards = [1,5,4,6,8,9,2], and the max allowed difference is k=3. The movies can be divided into a min of 3 groups.
So far I have only done the phone screen and coding challenge the challenge was very hard standard leetcode problems like monotonic stacks and dynamic programming. Phone screen was very basic background and discussing which team i would be best fit for
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Shipment imbalance difference between max and min of all subarrays use monotonic stacks
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2020
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Phone screen, then hiring manager interview with a simple code question. Then they set me up for a day of interviews. 4 interviews. One with the hiring manager, one with a "bar raiser" outside the team who drilled into a reasonably difficult coding question, then an interview with two people on the team I would work on who gave me an easier coding question and then asked behavioral questions. Took something like 5 hours total.