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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OA which was a 1 hour coding follow by 1 hour Work hour assessment , then Virtual onsite (3 rounds). Got to schedule my VO after 2-3 months of finishing the OA.
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Normal questions on their LPs + some leetcode mediums
Online assessment is like leetcode questions. Best if you do the blind 75(?) questions. I didnt get any easy ones so given my lack of practice and poor memorization skills, I couldnt get it
Invitation received to complete online assessment (2 questions : map implementation then BFS based solution). After this I received an invitation to schedule online interview via Chime software. Questions based on LP then coding exercice.
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Tell me about a time where you were faced with tight deadlines ?