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.
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1st round - Online Test which consists of 7 bug fixing questions , followed by 2 medium level coding questions and then some Logical reasoning questions, and then comes the boring part, which comprises of 55-60 or more than that personality check questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2017
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Standard Amazon Interview Process for SDE II candidate.
Two Online Coding Rounds (one was geenral aptitude and debugging and other one was writing a program)--> Phone Interview (45 mins) --> 3 onsite rounds 45 mins each
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Question 1
Check if parenthesis in an expression are balanced
I cleared all test cases in OA1 and OA 2 and did OA3 decently well on amazon principles. but still got rejected. OA1 is debugging round and OA2 is coding round with 2 codes to clear.