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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE I) 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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The interview is quite difficult but of we are very good at dsa we can go through it.1st round exam is average level and contains debugging aptitude behavioural sections.Every section is good.
I got a 3 hour interview it had 3 rounds in it where each round had a behavioral question and technical question. We had 15 min break between each round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2018
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Onsite interview is a big project and needs to solve three problems. You can choose c++ or java to figure it out. Between that, you will be asked some data structure questions.
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Question 1
Which kind of sort is used by Array in java. What is the complexity?