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 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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2 Online assessments,
3 ON-SITE interviews.
OA is simple. But on-site is too exhausted. However, the interviewers are very kind. Asked three code questions, solved 2, and the last one only solved half.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2020
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Interview process is very difficult and its understandable, it takes a lot of time to prepare for Data Structures and Algorithms, knowing Amazon's Leadership Principles is also a must to get through the interview
Three phase with 1st being an online leetcode style coding quiz with several MC questions and 2 long coding questions to do in 70 mins. Then part 2 was a day in the life style testing to see you meet the company's customer service mindeset (2hr). Part 3 is live 3 back-to-back live coding tests with current engineers (45mins each).
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Question 1
one of the live coding questions was to design a DFS