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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Question 1
Understand Amazon’s Leadership Principles Understand Amazon’s Cultural Quirks
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2022
Interview
Went through one round of phone and four rounds in onsite, the process is pretty standard, they ask you a leadership principal and how you were able to apply it, then they ask you a coding question