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% 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer SDE I according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
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IQ intelligence test: 20%
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First round 2 leet code questions , second round easy array questions, interviewer was warm; helped me through the process asked me behavioral about my latest experience and then the response came within a couple of days
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2021
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I applied through a recruiter. Sent me an online assessment, 2 leetcode medium questions to finish in 90min, with 2 articles to explain the approach and complexity analysis. Time is really tight. Each question need to:
1. understand question in 3min,
2.come up a solution in 2 min,
3.finish coding in 15min,
4.adjust to edge cases in 15min,
5. then document the solution in 5-10min.
If the first solution you came up with is not good enough, you are pretty much doomed -- no time to do it again.
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Question 1
Do you think you can work under pressure?
Understand data structures such as graph, linked list, array, hashmap.
Bad. Interviewer asked a design question which he himself didnr think through. Could notcomplete requirement gathering only. Overall otherwise it was good. i was asked Many behavioural questions. There was initially a phone screen as well
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