Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Stockholm, ) in Nov 2021
Interview
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
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2020
Interview
Kind of messy. I got ghosted after completing 4 rounds of interviews/tests. I reached out to the recruiter via email to ask for updates multiple times but got no response.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
It was pretty good. The online assessment was challenging but the other 2 questions were relatively easy as compared to other. And than I got a mail to schedule my interview