Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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1. HR communication about the detail JD and my current intension to join Amazon
2. Hiring Manager interview
3. HR schedule the loop interview
4. Loop interview for at least 5 rounds
5. HR feedback and offer discussion
Interview questions [1]
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 (Allâhâbâd) 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.
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Question 1
Q1 Serialization and deserialization of binary tree.