Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE I interview questions
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Two coding questions. 1st question is about debugging in Java with 10-11 different debugging problems that they expect you to solve in about 1 min or so. 2nd question is a typical problem you might see on leet code.
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I did not get an offer so there were no questions asked
Its a long process. The questions are easy to crack with good knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Leetcode is a must to crack the interviews. The whole process took 1 month.
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Basic Easy level and medium level leetcode questions. Cannot disclose bcoz of nda.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jan 2021
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They gave me an online assessment which I had to take in one week and I started solving questions related to Amazon on Leetcode. The time to solve was 120 minutes