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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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon
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include 1 phone interview and 1 onsite. phone interview includes some medium algorithm problems, onsite include 5 rounds. 1 algorithm, 1 tech-specific, 1 behavioral, 1 lunch, 1 system design. The overall process take 1 hr for
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includes duplicate 2 pointer graph, design a typesearch for a web page.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2019
Interview
5 rounds each 50% behavioral 50 % code. code questions were pretty clear and the interviewers had take time to fully explain if you ask but they don't give the full problem definition at first. one round had an object oriented question which I implemented and the interviewer was not satisfied with and did not point to the problem in my design which felt a bit arbitrary
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Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager