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 59.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Ask you 4 technical questions back to back. They also might as you done questions to see if you fit with their leadership principles. You can find them online but they are basic corporate values with a twist like frugality.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2022
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It's a 4 stage process including on-site round. It has 4-5 technical round, 1 managerial and System Design. Managerial round has behavioral and technical has leetcode questions and system design has questions for designing any real-life application with scaling
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Question 1
Design a Social media platform and scale the requests
tech interview about 1 hour, bq interview about 45 min. two rounds of tech intervew and one round of behavior question interview so far. questions vary a lot with the group interviewing.