Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE I interview questions
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Initially had an Online Assessment which consisted of two parts. Then had a virtual interview of 4 rounds on the same day. Asked some leadership questions and medium-hard leetcode questions.
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Most of the questions were leetcode medium questions
The interview process consists of two rounds as follows :
First one was the coding round (OT) which consists of around 20 questions.
Second one was the interview in which two questions were asked.
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1 - anagrams related string questions.
2 - frequency of smaller numbers on the right of a given number in an array.
it takes generally 5 rounds 4 data structures and algorithm round and one behavioural round it takes generally 5 rounds 4 data structures and algorithm round and one behavioural round