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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The interview process is the multistep practice that companies use to screen and hire new employees. For my experience, this interview process is fixed and normal that can familiar online.
4-5 rounds.
online test-2
hr/technical round-2
questions around dsa and oops
dbms,os,cn
questions are medium to hard level
important topics are dynamic programming,linked list,stack and queues , binary trees
time complexity
a round of projects as well
good luck
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Dec 2021
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You apply online, then a recruiter reaches out to you via email. You then take an online test that includes a work simulation (testing your leadership skills), a self evaluation of your technical skills/interests, and then a technical exam