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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I (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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It went well they asked data structures and leetcode hard problems and the behaviuoral and system design questions.About the projects and resume main focus is on leetcode and behaviuoral. A lot of questions sbout future.
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LRU Cache how you get the east recently used cache
Interview contains two parts 1. Leadership principles( 4 to 5 questions about experience and situations) 2. coding round ( pure coding round with interactive section). it is a 1 hour long interview with 30 minutes for each round.
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what is the situation where you have to convince your manager or lead to new approach you discussed ?
The Amazon SDE interview process typically starts with a recruiter call, followed by technical phone screens and an onsite interview loop, which includes coding, system design, and behavioral questions, along with an assessment of Amazon's leadership principles.
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1. Time when you received critical feedback.
2. Time when you had to priorize one thing over another.
3. Leetcode on Trees and Graphs using dynamic programming.