Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Pretty good. include 3 OA and one VO. OAs are pretty challenging. VO includes one coding question and several behavior questions. Pretty good. include 3 OA and one VO. OAs are pretty challenging. VO includes one coding question and several behavior questions.
It is a four step process where first step will be code decoding, second step will be coding two questions. Third will be coding and behavioral questions. Final step will be a 3 hour interview which will be split into three small rounds.
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Question 1
Tell me a situation where you faced unexpected problem and how did you solve it in prod?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2020
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It has 4 steps .
First one is the apti one ,it is easy.
the next 2 is technical and the final one is HR.
I heard both the technicals were very tough . But the HR round was so chill. So try to prepare and go for both the technical rounds.
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What is the differnce between binary tree and tree?