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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Initially there was a phone screen and then code screen. I was given an at home assessment test to be completed in timeframe of 2 hours once started. There were four in person interview rounds.
It was awesome with a flow. The interviewer was amazing and tried to make the interview more interactive.
Asked questions regarding the assessment which one took during the first round and then just some general questionnaires. Also gave time to ask, if any, question the person has.
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About the second or different approach for the same assessment which one attempted.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Stockholm, ) in Nov 2021
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Online coding problems. Two problems. Medium difficulty. Followup interview problems with discussion, be prepared with DS and Scalability concepts. Problems are very similar to LeetCode. Interviewers are polite, outsourced interviewers. Final talk is about Amazon principles leadership and stuff
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Divide and conquer algorithms, start with simple solution then optimize