Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Software Development Engineer SDE 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 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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Skills test: 25%
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One hour phone screen followed by virtual onsite consisting of 4 one hour interviews back to back. Both phone screen and onsite interviews had a mix of behavioural, leadership and technical questions.
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Question 1
Implement a least recently used cache, invert a binary tree
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Jan 2022
Interview
The interview progressed quite easily. At the first stage, the recruiter contacts you, then the exam link is sent to you, you pass the exam and the recruitment process begins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A coding exam is being held, and when you successfully pass the questions here, the recruitment moves to the next stage.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Apr 2022
Interview
The interview process require a lot of preparation.
The code assessment itself already push your skill.
The interview is really hard. you have to explain as detail as possible using the STAR technique.
They really emphasise this. Will be a bit hard for non-native english speaker to convey your thought.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you explain when you have to ask for deadline extension ?