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 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.
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1 round: online test (multiple choice questions on debugging and 2 basic coding questions)
The exam is easy Easy .
2 round (2 technical and hr)
In 1st round 2 question on DSA.
Medium level difficulty.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First the interviewer asked " Tell me about yourself".
1st question is to create a queue and to do all the operations push, pop and display operations in O(1) time.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Syracuse, NY) in Sep 2021
Interview
It went on for 30 min. For the first 15 min I was asked to explain the approach for my 2 programs that I had written in the OA round, followed by modification questions. The next 10 minutes or so the interviewer explained to me about Amazon, how the projects are and how everything works. And in the last I got to ask questions about Amazon to the interviewer.
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Question 1
About the OA round and modifications to these questions.
it is very easy very pleasany talk with HR however the behavior questions are annoying which caused rejection, so I asked HR the reason I got declined that is what I got as above