Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Software Development Engineer SDE applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Maximum sum subarray such that no elements are consecutive
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
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The interview process consist of an online test followed by multiple rounds of interview. Online test consists of aptitude questions and implementation based coding problems. Interview was based on Data Structures and Algorithms.
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Which Data Structure you will use for a given type of scenario you will solve the given problem with that DS and was asked to implement one of them
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1. Online assessment ( four easy to medium leetcode problems) 2. 3 rounds of interviews with staff at Amazon. Each round consists of both behavioral and technical questions. (Don't forget to show your Amazon-ness!)
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- Design a system for the delivery guy to optimize the usage of the Amazon hub.