Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon
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Just gave OAs (online assessments). Part 1 was debugging, second was coding and third was more like behavioral/ work environment simulation. The second round also included a behavioral section along with two coding rounds. The debugging round had 7 questions to solve in 20 mins.
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Debugging and programming questions where the programming questions were medium - difficult.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Syracuse, NY) in Jan 2020
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The coding question asked was not really difficult to solve but the fact that the solution had to be optimal made it harder to complete the problem. Prepare for the time and space complexity as well
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
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Online assesment with two coding questions then survey including leadership prencipiles.
The first question is you have a shopping card with secret cards when the customer by a new product the items saved in list and if the shopping card orders equals the secret card the customer will win otherwise will loose