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 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) I according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
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Personality test: 33%
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3 rounds total, you could schedule them yourselves
First was online debugging of 3 different problems.
Next was a personality matching test
Last round was 3 DSA interviews 1 hr each
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Feb 2025
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One on one with senior engineer. Leetcode medium, two linked lists. Needed to see if they were the same. Not sure what the other rounds were, got rejected after first round.
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Answered above. Looking back it was easy I should have prepared more.
Same as what you can find online, I had one where all three rounds conducted in one day, about 5 total techincal questions, and just talk about what you did before projects etc.