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.
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it was a bit medium difficulty. mostly dsa coding interview questions like trees, graphs were asked by them. Prepare trees and graphs well. do a lot of practice on geeks for geeks, leetcode, etc,.
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number of islands construct binary tree from pre and inorder
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Colorado Springs, CO) in Mar 2022
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great interview practice, made me feel engaged and challenged throughout. The recruiter kept me up to speed with updates and next steps throughout the process. I would recommend this company as a great place to interview
Interviewer was nice and friendly. We did a behavioral round first involving leadership principles and then dive straight into coding round involving a leetcode medium question on linked list, asked questions at the end and overall it was great experience.