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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Applied in August 2020. Received an email for OA in February 2021. I gave 3 OAs for Amazon SDE. I passed all test cases for OA1 and OA 2. OA3 went well as well. Got rejected a few days later.
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Profit maximization question. Can be found easily on Google.
At first asked me to give an intro to yourself, then comes to bq, the last part is coding process. It takes me about 45 minitues to finish the whole processes
3 rounds, all technical. Prepare for leadership principles. Technical questions can include system design questions. The best way to prepare is to practice medium questions on leetcode. Give as many archived contests as possible to get used to time-based assessments.