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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
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What would you do if you found out your closest friend at work was stealing? ...
Describe your most difficult customer and how you handled it. ...
Tell me about a time you were 75 percent through a project and had to pivot quickly. ...
Behavioral questions. ...
Leadership questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Arlington, VA) in Aug 2022
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did not help me with anything and the interview was not related to the job it was difficult too and was not helpful at all and unrelated to the position I was applying for
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (New Delhi) in Sep 2022
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very smooth only for those who have good command over Data structures and algorithms.There were multiple rounds of interview and all the rounds were elimination round.And i don't want to tell anything about the company that's it, idk why 30 words limit is not getting over 😄
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Longest palindrome substring and height of the tree