Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Nov 2021
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Short talk with recruiter, and technical interview. programming questions were very realistic and were generic data structure questions. Team was for Amazon Fresh, Amazon Studio and Amazon Alexa, the questions were very fair but it is easy to run out of time if you dont manage it correctly.
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Tell me about a time you disagreed with your boss.
Phone interview in the beginning.
After passing phone interview, it have to go through loop interview with 4 sessions.
And it will have feedback within 5 days after completing the loop interviews.
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all session have 2 part, 1st part is behavioral question, and then 2nd part is technical question.
It was nice and the interviewer was very friendly and help me and explained the question twice and gave time and asked me to explain my way to solve the problem.
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DS Coding questions one from strings and other from graphs