Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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So far I have only done the phone screen and coding challenge the challenge was very hard standard leetcode problems like monotonic stacks and dynamic programming. Phone screen was very basic background and discussing which team i would be best fit for
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Shipment imbalance difference between max and min of all subarrays use monotonic stacks
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2020
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Phone screen, then hiring manager interview with a simple code question. Then they set me up for a day of interviews. 4 interviews. One with the hiring manager, one with a "bar raiser" outside the team who drilled into a reasonably difficult coding question, then an interview with two people on the team I would work on who gave me an easier coding question and then asked behavioral questions. Took something like 5 hours total.
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Feb 2022
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There were 3 45 minute interviews split up by 15 minute breaks. Each interview was split into half behavioral and half technical. Behavioral questions were focused on Amazon's leadership principles.
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Question 1
whats a time you had to learn something knew and how did you do it