Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Neu-Delhi) in Jan 2022
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Applied through a recruiter.
First-round was an online coding test ( Easy ).
3 technical rounds along with leadership principals.
Two are on the same day and the third one on the other day.
The fifth round was with the Hiring Manager.
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Question 1
Coding round two simple questions.
The first was on array iteration.
The second was on the stack ( tricky ).
On 3 Technical rounds
Questions based on tree traversal, simple 2D DP, string encode decode.
The hiring Manager asked about recent work you did at your current company ( went ok for me).
online coding
1st round (1h)
2nd roumd (1h *4)
all were done in online interviews.
in the 2nd round, 3 algorithm and one object oriented design interview.
interviewers were so kind and good.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2019
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Definitely the most helpful for the assessment was leetcode and hackerank. I'd say definitely prepare well in advance, but be confident about your skills. Don't try and finish both problems perfectly, but try both and go back to clean the code up.