Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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2 rounds of interview with questions around DSA involving stack, arrays. Each round had around 2 questions all about dsa and improvising the solution gradually. One must have a complete grasp of data structure and algorithm. Also they would ask about the project built during the college period.
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Question 1
Explain about one of your recent projects and data structure did you use in it.
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Trees and Graphs:
Given a binary tree, write a function to determine if it’s balanced.
Find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two nodes in a binary search tree (BST).
Implement depth-first search (DFS) and breadth-first search (BFS) for a graph.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2023
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My friend referred me. Got an initial assessment request. Passed it. Got another set of behavioral questions. Didn't get the interview. I think I missed a few behavioral questions and maybe I wasn't in the top 10% of the initial assessment