Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (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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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Nov 2021
Interview
Short talk with recruiter, and technical interview. programming questions were very realistic and were generic data structure questions. Team was for Amazon Fresh, Amazon Studio and Amazon Alexa, the questions were very fair but it is easy to run out of time if you dont manage it correctly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you disagreed with your boss.
Phone interview in the beginning.
After passing phone interview, it have to go through loop interview with 4 sessions.
And it will have feedback within 5 days after completing the loop interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
all session have 2 part, 1st part is behavioral question, and then 2nd part is technical question.