Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I (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 58.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I (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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3 rounds of interview for new grad sde, 1st round is behaviour, 2nd round lld, 3rd leetcode style question. got postponed for 2 weeks and then 3 months I was waitlisted only to know the headcount was full
It was hard but professional everything was on time
I tried to answer most of the questions , they required an optimised approach it's mostly about data structures and algorithms and some basics about computer science fundamentals and data bases
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Dsa trees and graphs mostly about binary trees and bit manipulation too
DSA heavy and focus on core concepts. System design and projects were also asked.
But the interview process is slow, was reached out by the recruiter multiple times but interview took a lot of time.