Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Aug 2020
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Initially it went fine, but when it was time to wind up the interviewer created huge mess.
He changed the direction of answering the questions and got in the incorrect way for approaching them.
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Question 1
Two easy programming questions:
i) Binary search
II) Breadth First Search
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2021
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Two leetcode medium-easy problems. I ran out of time for part 1, debugging though. Don't overthink it. Part three wasn't that bad. They give you a good amount of time to answer the behavioral questions.
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return all two sum pairs
validate one BST is a subtree of another
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Nov 2020
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There were 2 technical rounds at Amazon. First one consisted of simple data structure questions and the second one was bit tough, involving some good understanding of stack and DP. But these questions I found on lee code.
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In first round the interview asked me that you work in amazon and have to make module where you have to deal with large dataset of mobile phone . Then asked to write code for different queries like mobile phone having price above 15000. Then, if data is frequently being added how will you carry on, which dataset will you use.