Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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The SDE test featured HackerRank-style questions. The main challenge was the lengthy and complex problem descriptions, which made it difficult to comprehend and solve within the time limit. Practicing on HackerRank beforehand would definitely help improve speed and familiarity with the format.
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They asked two array manipulation questions. Both involved logic-heavy operations and required efficient handling of arrays under time constraints. Practicing similar problems on HackerRank would definitely help.
Was overall easy, was asked not to mention outside technical work , as a new grad didn't have much technical experience so felt a bit awkward , could have done better
it was fun, 3 rounds of interviews in one day, technical questions with various follow ups for optimization and the behavioural questions on previous experiences with follow ups and it