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 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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1 oa and 2 rounds, normal leetcode style questions, easy and medium focus more on leadership skills. 1 oa and 2 rounds, normal leetcode style questions, easy and medium focus more on leadership skills
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2357. Make Array Zero by Subtracting Equal Amounts
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You are given a non-negative integer array nums. In one operation, you must:
Choose a positive integer x such that x is less than or equal to the smallest non-zero element in nums.
Subtract x from every positive element in nums.
Return the minimum number of operations to make every element in nums equal to 0.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
Interview
45-60 minute interview, with a technical and behavioral component. Behavioral questions were based on the leadership principles, technical question was a easy-medium difficulty leetcode question (Graphs). Overall not particularly difficult.
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Describe a time where you had to make a sacrifice.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2025
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I completed the online assessment and got an interview. It was a technical screening interview before the loop. It was an hour long interview with a couple of leadership principle questions and one coding question (medium).
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The leadership principle question was related to delivering results leadership principle. It was about a time I came up with creative and out of the box solution to a problem.