Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview questions
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it takes generally 5 rounds 4 data structures and algorithm round and one behavioural round it takes generally 5 rounds 4 data structures and algorithm round and one behavioural round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2021
Interview
There were 3 interview rounds. I was able to get only to first round. In the first round, the interviewer asked to solve 2 DSA problems. I was able to solve only one and was not selected for further rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to rearrange an array such that no 2 adjacent elements are same.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Gāndhīnagar, Gujarat) in Aug 2021
Interview
Online test(
7 easy debugging questions related to algorithms to be done in 20 minutes.
2 coding questions with varying difficulty of easy to medium to be solved in 70 minutes. :
Techincal round (Core subjects +DSA)
Techincal round(Core subjects +DSA)
Techincal round(Core subjects +Project discussion)
HR(Project discussion + General HR)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Given two sorted arrays nums1 and nums2 of size m and n respectively, return the median of the two sorted arrays.
The overall run time complexity should be O(log (m+n)).