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 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 25%
Personality test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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The interviewers were nice and patient. They are there to listen and have a casual conversation with you. The technical interviews were hard but that was to be expected. They will ask for an optimal solution and ask for time complexity.
3 rounds of online assessment - debug the code, coding based on leetcode questions and a round of behavioral questions where they give you a set of scenarios and ask what you'll do.
1 in person interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Based on my answers in OA2, they asked me questions
Submit my resume to the recruiter
-> Online Assessment (two coding problems, work style assessment, culture assessment) (to be finished in 1 week)
-> virtual onsite interview (four rounds)
total takes 1.5 months
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two classical Leetcode Medium questions.
Two design problems.