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 59.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Pretty smooth no suprises. It was a 2 hour interview with 15 questions which were a combination of behavioral and technical problems. Focus on the Amazon leadership principles because they grill you on that and be sure to be thorough with your resume
30 mins round with data structures and algorithms question and some resume related questions. Asked about the toughest questions I solved recently. time complexity and space complexity, how to optimize the solution
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Jul 2022
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Straightforward, somehow I managed to skip the tech screening and was directly interviewing virtual on-site with 4 rounds. Three were Leetcode medium questions from Blind 75, Last round was System Design with Hiring Manager.
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1. LRU Cache 2. Merge intervals (different variation) 3. TinyURL system design 4. dont remember but it was easy