Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I (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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Online assessment is like leetcode questions. Best if you do the blind 75(?) questions. I didnt get any easy ones so given my lack of practice and poor memorization skills, I couldnt get it
Invitation received to complete online assessment (2 questions : map implementation then BFS based solution). After this I received an invitation to schedule online interview via Chime software. Questions based on LP then coding exercice.
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Tell me about a time where you were faced with tight deadlines ?
easy unless you get an indian interviewer. very hard to please them so just give up. They expect the answer they have in mind and do not listen to any others