Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE I) 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 59.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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It started in January and ended around May, so pretty long.
It had a recruiter screen, online assessment and a loop.
Interviewers were friendly and helpful throughout the loop. For lc, I prepared using amazon tagged questions, and for lp questions they asked follow up questions, but they were not probing, mostly curious.
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Tell me about a time you had to navigate through an ambigous situation?
3 interviews of 1 hour. First is BQ. Asked questions about BQ, Several medium, easy leetcode. BQ is the important part. If you answered good and confident i think the rest is good.
3 interviews back to back (3.5 hours in total)
Round 1: behavioral questions + object-oriented programming
Round 2: behavioral questions + 1 LeetCode
Round 3: bar raiser, resume deep dive