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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer SDE I 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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I applied online, had to set up an account. They later sent me an email containing the first round of the online assessment, debugging. After, they sent me an email containing the second round of the online assessment, writing actual code. I was later sent an email saying they will not move forward with the intership and referred me to their Amazon Propel Program.
it was a three step process that was emailed after you completed each step and passed it with a error checking test in different langs, then coding test, then company fit test.
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It was a syntax question to get the program to run.
Tedious interview. There was more focus on Leadership principles than on the technical stuff. But the interviewers were quite helpful and did try to give hints when I was stuck.