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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3 rounds were there .basic hard and medium level questions were asked . no cs fundamentals were asked. learn amazon leadership priciples by heart. they ask a lot about them.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2022
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First interview was on a call. Second interview included some technical questions, coding challenge. Coding challenge was pretty much Leetcode, system design questions so be ready for that part - review the AWS services.
easy and smooth got asked questions about the behavioral questions and some basic computer science questions, like diff between threads and processes, list and tuple in Python, etc. Behavioral questions seem play a vary important role in the decision.