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.
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1 Online Assessment
3 Technical Interviews
One of which is bar raiser round which is based on LP of amazon and you have to answer in STAR format for better result.
Other 2 were technical round. The questions asked were from DSA concepts. No. of questions are predecided by the interviewer. can be 2 or 1
got one hour to solve all the question with best possible approach to get selected
initially aptitude round, the first round was tough, basically, they ask dsa questions in both dsa rounds and the last one was the hr round very smooth.
overall experience was awesome.
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Question 1
trapping rainwater problem (available on leetcode and gfg )
There were 3 interviews of 45 mins each and in each Behavioral questions were asked before the Coding question. First round had a lot of Behavioral questions and had a OOD question very open ended and very few inputs were given.Rest went a lot better than the first but felt there was no concrete reason for a rejection.