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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Uma entrevista técnica realizada em inglês, com foco em questões de algoritmos e estruturas de dados, acontece por meio da plataforma LifeCode. Durante o processo, o candidato precisa resolver desafios de programação, explicar suas soluções e demonstrar habilidades de resolução de problemas em tempo real. A avaliação considera a capacidade de escrever código eficiente, justificar escolhas e otimizar algoritmos. As perguntas podem abordar arrays, listas ligadas, árvores, ordenação, busca e análise de complexidade, exigindo comunicação clara e raciocínio lógico durante toda a sessão.
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Question 1
You have n boxes labeled from 0 to n - 1. You are given four arrays: status, candies, keys, and containedBoxes where:
status[i] is 1 if the ith box is open and 0 if the ith box is closed,
candies[i] is the number of candies in the ith box,
keys[i] is a list of the labels of the boxes you can open after opening the ith box.
containedBoxes[i] is a list of the boxes you found inside the ith box.
You are given an integer array initialBoxes that contains the labels of the boxes you initially have. You can take all the candies in any open box and you can use the keys in it to open new boxes and you also can use the boxes you find in it.
Return the maximum number of candies you can get following the rules above.
My interview was postponed 3 times
the information is not prior, when I joined in meeting someone else joined and told me will be rescheduled
later interviewer joined basic intro of both
then he gave me the DSA question
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Question 1
Implement a Stack with O(1) time complexity for getting min and max
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Noida) in May 2025
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Easy the interview was smooth n asked from the leetcode problems we used to solve.similar questions only. So just practice leetcode problems properly you are good to go hr was lil diff as I didn't had work experience and all soo they were insisting on that continuously