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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer SDE I according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
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Question 1
leadership principle related questions, such as describe a situation of a complicated project, which you didn't agree but you conduct the practice.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Allahabad) in Aug 2020
Interview
There were 3 interview rounds.
Starting two rounds was mostly based on Data Structure and algorithms. In both 2 coding questions were asked.
The last round basically manager round , in this my project is disscued and some behavarioul questions were there and one DSA question was also asked in this round.
Interview questions [2]
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Q1 Serialization and deserialization of binary tree.
The hiring process can be broken down into 5 steps, and reportedly ranges from one week to four months, depending on the role and team. Depending on the role you're interviewing for, you may be required to take a technical or non-technical assessment, answer behavioral questions, or even complete a writing sample.