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%
Presentation: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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first is like oa where 2 questions are given of DSA and some leadership questions then after the next 2 rounds are like inperson interview in hyd these round are also with dsa and some leadership questions
It was in 2 phases, both with technical and leadership, first technical was easy related to array, second round it was matrix with backtracking from opposite end quite tricky, did not expect such difficulty as an intern.
Interview was structured. Few steps. First few were leadership principles, then OA, and then few coding questions. Followed up with some more leadership principles questions and coding for the final few rounds
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