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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
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3 LLDs, then a behavioral round. LLDs were dofficult( 2 random, 1 parking garage) behavioral were generic questions about resume and LPs. Overall a pretty smooth process, interviewers were kind and even helpful when I was stuck on one of the LLDs
R1- Bar raiser with SDE Manager (L3). 1 hour questions on leadership principles and human skills
R2 & R3 - Coding. DS (Leetcode medium and hard questions) and LLD questions to complete.
Asked by sde 2 and sde 2 respectively.
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Question 1
Tell me about the time you went above and beyond for your team.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2024
Interview
I applied to this role on campus, and i got an assessment where i was asked to solve 2 coding questions which were medium and high difficulty. Afterwards i got shortlisted to the interview where i was asked to solve two complex coding questions {i was asked algorithm to solve the problem, to write the code and explain line by line and its space and time complexity}
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Question 1
1. Introduce Yourself?
While solving the coding questions they asked to think out loud about our approach to the questions