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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Fairly long , first part was a Hacker Rank challenge consisting of two questions. You are given 70 minutes. Second part is a work style simulation of the work environment that lasts around 2 hours.
3 interviews; each covering different aspects, namely programming / Algorithms / Data structures / Problem Solving. Each interview lasted for an hour. Had one round of interview with the HR. The process very smooth
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1. 25 horses problem
2. shuffling a deck of cards
3. BST to doubly linked list
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Aug 2021
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There is a test before to go through to the interview which is proved to be too tough if you are not prepared for Graphs and dynamic programming type of questions
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Map Set DAG and dynamic programming based questions