Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2025
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I did the OA part 1, there will be practical test before real start. The you have 70 min to complete two coding assessments. You don't need to turn on your laptop camera.
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Question 1
Coding Problem 1: Minimum Starting Health Calculation
Problem Statement: Determine the minimum starting health required for a player to win the game. Given an array of enemy attack powers (power) and an armor value (armor), the player takes damage in each round, but the armor can negate the highest attack once.Coding Problem 2: Optimal Warehouse Placement
Problem Statement: Given an array centers representing the positions of distribution centers, determine the optimal placement of two warehouses such that the sum of distances from each distribution center to its nearest warehouse is minimized.
Invited for a 4-hr online assessment. After submitting that, got invited for 3 45-min interviews. First was a coding round, 2nd interviewer didn't join the call and this got rescheduled(asked LLD question) and the 3rd one was behavioral.
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Behavioral - Amazon Leadership principles
Coding - LeetCode hard
System design - Amazon locker design
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru)
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Online test: (60 mins) 2 coding questions of medium difficulty level. The Amazon online test (20 questions) is based on OOPs, DBMS, operating systems, data structures, and algorithms.
Technical Interview 1: Project discussions, coding questions based on DS algorithms, and quizzes. It basically tests real-world problem-solving skills.
Technical Interview 2: Questions of relatively higher difficulty level (mostly DS and algorithms-based)
Bar raiser round: Behavioral questions and project discussions. Some technical questions are followed by an assessment of leadership quality and cultural fit.
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Question 1
"Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1, compute how much water it is able to trap after raining