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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There were 2 coding questions in my online test some leadership skills question some debugging questions and some logical reasoning questions.
In interview mainly tree and graph questions were asked
I applied for SDE1 on the Amazon job portal. After few days, I got an exam link from Amazon. In the exam, there were 2 coding questions(DP, Greedy) and 2 descriptive questions in which we have to explain how we approached the above 2 questions and write about their time and space complexities. The interviewer was friendly and the overall experience was great.
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Question 1
Debugging questions: Very very easy, you don’t need to prepare for this
Coding questions: There was a total of 3 questions, 1 easy and 2 medium-level questions. I don’t remember the questions.
Work style assessments: It’s basically an MCQ to assess your behavior and your attitude
Aptitude questions: Prepare from GeeksForGeeks
First round was DSA + Resume. DSA question was based on Trees. Second round was DSA round and was based on arrays and Trees. Third round was a Bar-Raiser round.