Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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two leetcode questions in 1:30 hours in hackerand plattform.
The first was medium and the second was a question within it two different methods that u need to decide while solving it which method u beter use.
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first q was string of 0's and 1's with a story about each represensting a turned on or off bulb, and i need to turn on bubls if the new bulbs i will turn on arent adjacent to a turned on bulb.
LC Medium Hard questions throughout the interview process along with system design and Object Oriented concepts. Make sure to incorporate OOPs Concepts if the interviewer is going towards that direction.
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Cannot share much but questions were based on Sliding window and Prefix sum
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Dec 2024
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It was not so good. I was asked easy DSA questions, but I couldn't answer the project-based question well, which led to the rejection. I was able to answer the DSA question.
Anyways, this was an eye opener for me that behavioural and project-based questions do play a crucial role in an interview.