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% 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%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
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Very smooth , it didn’t take much time just some practice from leetcode. The online assessment was easy to take and did not have network requirement as mentioned in the email
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2020
Interview
This year amazon came to our college for hiring.First There was a Online test.After that few peoples were selected for interviews.3 rounds of interview were conducted.all 3 were coding rounds.I cleared all the rounds .
In a party of N people, only one person is known to everyone. Such a person may be present in the party, if yes, (s)he doesn’t know anyone in the party. We can only ask questions like “does A know B? “. Find the stranger (celebrity) in the minimum number of questions
it was a really good and enjoyable experience. The interviewers made us feel relaxed and asked us about ourselves at the starting and the experience was good.The questions asked were very technical they mainly focused on topics like DSA,OS, DBMS etc. there were 2 rounds. One was a written test and secound was a phone interview
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Question 1
Please introduce yourself and tell me something about yourself