Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.8 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.
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Applied online a long time ago but recently got notice to do a final round interview. Three interviewers each ask one behavior and one coding question for 45 minutes. 15-minute breaks in between.
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leetcode easy questions on arrays and file system.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2021
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1. Coding round : 2 lc easy questions. Included array and string operations.
2. Behavioral : 3 hour test, quite lengthy and confusing. But take it seriously. Be prepared for the lengthy process.
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Mostly easy leetcode questions which included string and array operations.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
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Medium to hard difficulty level questions
Three rounds of coding
One behavioural/leadership principle round
Overall good experience
Asked examples of each amazon leadership principle -customer obsession, ownership, deep dive, invent and simplify etc
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Question 1
Vertical order traversal of tree
Memory read/write
Combination sum
min no of swaps to put all zeroes together