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. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2020
Interview
I was interviewed by non-native English speaking SDE Intern. It was difficult to understand what he was saying, I asked him to repeat several times. In the end I understood the coding problem statement and I solved it. There was one behavioral question that I believe I responded well. The interviewer suggested that I qualified for a next interview phase and the HR will let me know when that will be. The HR reached out but the outcome was negative. Pretty tricky interviewer!
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Oct 2020
Interview
Firstly, there was an online test that everyone took which consists of logical, verbal thinking questions along with 2 coding questions and a psychometric test.
Then there were 2 technical interviews in which they asked 2 coding questions and other standard interview questions such as your baisc info and goals/objecives.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2020
Interview
Completed a three-part OA in about 2 weeks. Each session was about 60-90 minutes long. Received results usually the day of each session. After the last OA session, I waited about 2 weeks until I was notified about the final round scheduling.
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Question 1
One of the coding questions was a variation of Num-Islands—given a grid of chars [a-z], find number of islands