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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE I) according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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1.5 hour technical interview, with behavioral questions for 30 minutes and coding challenge for 1 hour. The coding challenge was difficult, while the behavioral was standard questions. The process initially started with a few questions from a recruiter and then progressed to the technical interview.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Sep 2021
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completed a 2-question OA, then phone screen with a shadow interviewer. Asking a heap type OOD design question. Unfortunately, I failed as I am not proficient at leet coding in Sept 2021
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Leetcode data logger 987. One of the top 10 questions
First-round is the coding round in which coding problems are required to be solved. Next is a DSA based interview round in which one has to solve questions in front of the panel.
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