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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Initial Screening interview, online assessment, One on One and three more technical interviews. Everything happened on multiple days and due to covid all rounds are happened online without onsite visit.
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Common questions from leetcode with slight customization
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Simple, straightforward and two rounds of coding. Coding was pretty simple, leet code stuff. One extra round prior to interview is a behavioral test. The behavioral is multiple choice and has to do with work situations.
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Word anagram, similar to the ones you see on leetcode
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2021
Interview
Two technical questions were asked, which I solved correctly and then a few questions on my past internships and project which I answered confidently. The complete interview was for around 1 hour and there were 2 rounds.
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One was on stack and the other on reversing a linked list in k groups