Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Software Development Engineer SDE 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 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer SDE roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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Phone interview: 25%
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Personality test: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Tedious interview. There was more focus on Leadership principles than on the technical stuff. But the interviewers were quite helpful and did try to give hints when I was stuck.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2021
Interview
Received my first Online assessment in January 2021 and second online assessment the same day I submitted the first one. The link is only valid 5 days from the time I received the email
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fill the truck - All products loaded onto the truck should be packaged in boxes of the same size. One box can hold different number of units of product for each product type. Given the number of boxes the truck can hold, write an algorithm to determine the maximum number of units of any mix of products that can be shipped.
2. Turnstile - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/699973
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Got a call from recruiter. First round is OA which had 2 coding questions and 45 mins Logical Analysis questions. 2 no round is 3.5 hrs simulation. :rd round is 3 45 mins f2f interviews.