Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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There are three VO. In each part, technical problem and behavior question are included. OOD and algorithms problems are both belong to technical problem and only one probme appears in one vo.
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Question 1
The biggest mistake you made and what did you learn from it?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New Delhi) in Jan 2022
Interview
Applied through a recruiter.
First-round was an online coding test ( Easy ).
3 technical rounds along with leadership principals.
Two are on the same day and the third one on the other day.
The fifth round was with the Hiring Manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding round two simple questions.
The first was on array iteration.
The second was on the stack ( tricky ).
On 3 Technical rounds
Questions based on tree traversal, simple 2D DP, string encode decode.
The hiring Manager asked about recent work you did at your current company ( went ok for me).
online coding
1st round (1h)
2nd roumd (1h *4)
all were done in online interviews.
in the 2nd round, 3 algorithm and one object oriented design interview.
interviewers were so kind and good.
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