Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE I interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2022
Interview
They have you verify your identity with tour webcam so be ready for that. The Amazon prep leetcode course should be good enough prep. make sure you know the ins and outs of your answers though because they mark when your cursor leaves the screen so don’t go searching anything up because they will know and it will count against you.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2022
Interview
Did technical phone screen. Asked me 1 behavioral question, regarding what was my best project and what I did and what my blockers were. Asked me a follow up question regarding the specs of the project. Leetcode question was about finding total number of subarrays from array where continuous numbers equal 0.
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Describe your best project, any blockers, and why you like it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2022
Interview
1. Online Test - 2 Coding Question & Behavioral Assessment
2. Personal Interview 1 - Discussion on Project and 3 Coding Questions (1 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard)
3. Personal Interview 2 - Discussion on the project and 2 coding questions (1 medium, 1 hard)
4. Personal Interview 3 - only 2 coding questions (both questions are hard)
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Question 1
Round - 1 Questions :
1. https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two-arrays/
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two-linked-lists/
3. Given an Array, You have to partition the array so that sum of all the elements of every partition is the same. Return - Maximum of partitions that can be done and the sum of the elements of each partition.
Example 1 :
Input: n = 3 , nums = [2,6,8,0]
Output: partitions = 2, sum = 8
Example 2 :
Input: n = 10 , nums = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] Output: partitions = 10, sum = 1