Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE I interview questions
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Just do coding on site, more or less leetcode median; but a very long session (I took around 3 hours coding session with around 2 min breaks), and some basic behavior questions. However, I got a free meal by the end of the day.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
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A night before the interview, our college arranged an online interactive session for us with one of the Amazon employees. There I learnt the interview is usually difficult to crack and with the ongoing pandemic, it's going to be more difficult because Amazon tends to use their own app for the video calling where most of the times(presumably), the recruiter's face is not visible which(I feel) creates a more tense environment for the candidate. Even though the question asked by the interviewer was easy and I had solved that problem earlier, I couldn't answer it properly just out of nervousness. I was ousted in that very round but I learnt you can't crack the interviews of big corporations like Amazon and Goldman Sachs just by studying a night before the interview. I am quite good at aptitude and usually clear the first cognitive round and sometimes, the technical rounds too but for cracking a technical round, you need hell lot of preparation(at least a year) and most importantly loads of diligence and persistence.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
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It was a mix of Data structure and CS fundamentals based interview. Moderate difficulty, had to go through almost 4 technical rounds and 1 HR round to get selected.
The interviewer was friendly and asked questions in a calm way.