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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I got online assessment link. questions are medium to hard level. After 1 month, I got a call for interview. They gave chance to select date based n my availability.
I did an online assessment of AMZ. Received 2 questions in all. Each of them has 15 test cases. Only two cases are unlocked, which means you can see the specific testing inputs. But the others are locked, which only shows if you have passed the cases or not. I just got 6/15 and 0/15, and I received the rejection...
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Question 1
The numbers of awards per movie are awards = [1,5,4,6,8,9,2], and the max allowed difference is k=3. The movies can be divided into a min of 3 groups.
So far I have only done the phone screen and coding challenge the challenge was very hard standard leetcode problems like monotonic stacks and dynamic programming. Phone screen was very basic background and discussing which team i would be best fit for
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Shipment imbalance difference between max and min of all subarrays use monotonic stacks