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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The interview process went smoothly and efficient, and the interviewers are professional and friendly to talk with. The HR also responded quickly after the interview, and was happy to address all my questions. Very good experience.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Sep 2021
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HR interview and Coding challenge:
I was given 2 coding problems to solve and asked to write the approach for it.
And the HR interview was smooth. The recruiter made me feel comfortable and was very supportive in providing the required resources for me to prepare well for the Onsite interview which is scheduled for a date after 3 weeks from now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Challenge questions:
1. To find maximum presentations possible by diff companies, given arrival and duration of stay of each company to present. (Similar to meeting rooms problem on Leetcode)
2. Given an array of parking lot numbers, where cars are parked, find the minimum length of the roof to cover k cars.
2 Technical rounds
(easy to medium)
coding questions:
1) copy linked list with random pointers
2)merge intervals
3)petro pump problem
all with time complexity and space complexity
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 Technical rounds
(easy to medium)
coding questions:
1) copy linked list with random pointers
2)merge intervals
3)petro pump problem