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 3.2 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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Online assesment and then a few rounds of virtual onsites. The whole process was stress free. The questions asked were reasonable. The interviewers are nice and I had a great experience.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Nov 2020
Interview
3 rounds of online assessments, then 1 virtual onsite. The OAs were standard leetcode type questions and multiple choice surveys that are meant to find out your work style. virtual onsite was half technical half behavioral.
timeline: applied, 2-3 months later got invitation to start the process. about a week between each round. 1 week to get offer.
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Describe a time when you had a disagreement with a teammate/coworker, how did you resolve it
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
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Interview process took online test
online test 2 coding question (1.5 hrs) and 20 MCQ 30 min.
After that 2 interview round were taken
question were mainly from matrix and binary tree