Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 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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Ongoing. I passed the code challenge and will take a final phone interview. The code challenge contains 2 problems. One is simple and the other asks you to use the least steps to equally divide N piles of goods.
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The code challenge contains 2 problems. One is simple and the other asks you to use the least steps to equally divide N piles of goods.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2023
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There was a online assessment at first, three leetcode style questions. The descriptions had lots of words so practice extracting the important information. I got like 2/3 on the OA, wasnt enough I guess since I didnt get an email after,
Related to the frontend and backend on the HTML and also the JavaScript and related projects done in the undergraduates. And questions on the oops and the data structure and also need to have more knowledge in the dynamic programming
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