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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6 months intern then converted to FTE according to performance
Intern interview:
Online assessment then 2 DSA rounds.
Questions are purely on Data structures and algorithms nothing other than that.
Cover all DSA, LL, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, DP and other algorithms too
The online coding assignments takes about 2-3 hours with 3-4 questions. Then the second round is about the company's culture. The third round is online interview with three person to go through algorithms.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2020
Interview
There were 3 steps in the process. There was an online assessment with 2 questions to be solved. After which I had a technical screening on phone and then an on-site interview. There were 4 interviews, an hour each one after another. Two of them involved data structured and algorithm, one of them was based on logic and the other was based on system design. /
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