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 3.2 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 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Interview consisted of 2 technical interviews and 1 behavior. DSA and system design questions for tech portion and leadership principle based questions for behavior. Each interview was about an hour long and consisted of 2 members from the panel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you face a difficult challenge and how were you able to overcome it.
Max Meetings in a Room
Given the start and finish time of n meetings and just one room to conduct them, find the maximum number of meetings that can be accommodated in that room.
The start and end times are given in minutes from 12:00 AM
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given the start and finish time of n meetings and just one room to conduct them, find the maximum number of meetings that can be accommodated in that room.
The start and end times are given in minutes from 12:00 AM
the process was not very much difficult , they asked dsa question and then shifted to question about my projects. It was much easier compared to some other similar companies.