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 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Internal transfer, then it offer me a HR call, then followed with 3 consecutive interviews. They are primarily the BQ questions, and checking about the design and code commit I did.
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What is the OSI, and how your understanding in terms of SQL and NoSQL.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2023
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3 months after submitting my application I went through all the stages of the interview. A month later I have yet to hear back from my recruiter despite numerous follow up emails. Very unprofessional as Amazon themselves say they will strive to followup in 5 days.
first round was coding round with questions in ds and algo. Next interview round where again ds algo was asked. The company came in my college. Even though i was not selected the experience was nice.