Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Software Development Engineer SDE 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 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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It was very bad as the interviewer was not even interested to take interview. It was short, asked 1 dsa ques and some resume based ques. other than that some amazon principles
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Kharagpur, West Bengal) in Aug 2022
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I answered everything still was not offered. People at my college who did worse than me got selected only coz their interview was scheduled earlier. Amazon had promised that they would make the process fair, but it was not . Also, they took a lot of time to give the results
4 rounds of 1 hour interviews, each with different person from the team. questions about yourself, projects that you've done, amazon principles, and then one coding question, similar to the leetcode questions
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Question 1
tell me about a time when you couldn't meet the deadline