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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE I) 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.
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Attempted an online assessment which had 5 parts, including debugging, coding, behavioural, and aptitude.
It was a good experience. The coding questions were very easy. One is based on priority queue, and other is on normal queue. The debugging round is also pretty is one.
Initially had an Online Assessment which consisted of two parts. Then had a virtual interview of 4 rounds on the same day. Asked some leadership questions and medium-hard leetcode questions.
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Most of the questions were leetcode medium questions
The interview process consists of two rounds as follows :
First one was the coding round (OT) which consists of around 20 questions.
Second one was the interview in which two questions were asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 - anagrams related string questions.
2 - frequency of smaller numbers on the right of a given number in an array.