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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Phone screening asking about basic experiences (both academic and personal), then online based coding interview (did not pass). Knowledge of data structures was necessary. Multiple questions asked at the video interview.
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Asked me about project and academic experience, then typical coding questions
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Jalandhar, Punjab) in Oct 2021
Interview
there are total 3 round.first round consists of dsa coding round. second round is one to one interview round , focuses mainly on dsa and project discusiion.third round also about of 1.5 hr and dsa questions were asked.
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describe about different sorting algorithms u know?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2021
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2 online coding rounds. The platform used was Amazon Chime. Each round lasted an hour. In each round they began by asking a bit about yourself and then onto the coding questions. In round 2 managerial questions were also asked mostly pertaining to amazon STAR principle.
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Q: To check if the tree is balanced or not?
then he added another node to the tree making it unbalanced then asked to make the tree balanced ( hint: You are allowed to change the root of the tree)