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.
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It was a campus placement program. Amazon came and asked us to solve 2 programming questions. Most people (including me) were able to solve only 1. Amazon then chose people based on a criterion of their own, and proceeded with the interview process.
I saw that post on LinkedIn. I have filled the form using different mails, resume and phone numbers but got the link only on 1 account.The OA consisted of 2 questions and 70 minutes to solve that.
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You are given book volumes and you can only buy the volumes if by buying all volumes till now you get all conseutive volumnes else you dont but it and for that day print -1.
3 rounds, first bar raiser, then 2 rounds of technical. The first round is mainly about leadership. The second round only with coding and some normal questions. The third round is about the OOD and some behavioural questions.