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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE I) according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 33%
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Skills test: 33%
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Phone screen, online assessment, and then interviews.
Online assessment is average difficulty, but the interface may be hard and very clunky to use. Being timed didn't help either.
Study leetcode is a must
The interviewers are nice. The questions in the coding session are from leetcode. Very detailed behavior questions. Many follow up. However, it's difficult to contact the recruiter. Overall, the experience is not bad.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Feb 2019
Interview
The interviewer asked a question and went on mute. Not really sure if he heard the answer or not. After unmute he asked me to repeat the solution again. That was very frustrating.
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