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 58.1% 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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3 interviews; each covering different aspects, namely programming / Algorithms / Data structures / Problem Solving. Each interview lasted for an hour. Had one round of interview with the HR. The process very smooth
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1. 25 horses problem
2. shuffling a deck of cards
3. BST to doubly linked list
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderâbâd) in Aug 2021
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There is a test before to go through to the interview which is proved to be too tough if you are not prepared for Graphs and dynamic programming type of questions
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Map Set DAG and dynamic programming based questions
Very good. The interviewers wanted to check my potential, and my way of thinking to solve a problem. They helped me along the way as well. They were very polite.
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Question based on stacks and then dynamic programming