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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Difficult rounds totalling 6 including 4 programming rounds. Ane others are HR manager round and telephonic round by hiring manager. All are cordial but questions are very difficult.Difficult rounds totalling 6 including 4 programming rounds. Ane others are HR manager round and telephonic round by hiring manager. All are cordial but questions are very difficult.
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Question 1
Coding in any language, questions on graphs, trees
1st Technical Assessment 30 min Phone Interview 5 virtual onsite rounds Every round 15 min behavioral and 45 min coding. Implement minesweeper game. BFS and DFS related questions Tree and Linked List question
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2021
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First you have to complete assessment, then it was an 4 interview stages with manages. Stages are divided in alternate order for 1st was coding and the second was behavioural .