Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Split between behavioural and technical interview.
Behavioural will entail a question based on one of the Amazon leadership principles, and will have follow-up questions based on this.
Technical will involve a Leetcode medium or harder question.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time where you didn't know what to do.
Assessment + four rounds of talking to potential team mates and it includes both behavioral and technical questions that are similar to leetcode and also a system design question that involved designing some type of system in a scalable manner
Phone screen: 1 hour long, 4 behavioral questions, started with LC medium (solved) that turned difficult with a LC hard follow up question. Probably for the best didn't move to onsite lol