Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) 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 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Round 1: Online Coding Test
- Two DSA questions
Round 2: Technical Interview
- Two coding questions : both array based
Round 3: Technical Interview
- Two coding questions : easy and medium level
Round 4: Technical Interview
- Two coding questions easy and medium level
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Question 1
Given three arrays. Find all the pairs from the two arrays such that the sum of those elements is in the third array.
Reverse a Linked List
Find Kth Max occurring element in the Array.
Used HashMap and Heap to solve the question.
Time O(n*logn)
Find K-th Permutation Sequence: Given N and K, where N is the sequence of numbers from 1 to N([1,2,3….. N]) find the Kth permutation sequence.
interview was easy and nice and the questions asked were basic and interviewer was helping throughout.
Questions focused on Data structures and algorithms and you were asked to find time and space complexity
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Velur) in Jul 2022
Interview
Great Interview, they asked 2 coding questions in 45 minutes. The questions were based on strings and STL for C++. The questions were preety straight forward but it required you to have good hands on practice with coding.