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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MCQ and programming test on Hacker rank, 2 technical interviews, 1 HR interview.
Focus primarily on DS and A. Overall good experience.
Yes. Ok. Yeah. Sure. Wow. Still 30 words not completed
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderâbâd) in Dec 2020
Interview
interview was quite pleasant, it was virtual.
There were three rounds of interviews.
all are related to coding skills, we have to write code and they will judge.
2nd round had a discussion on the projects i have done.
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Question 1
Questions on graphs, strings and some on backtracking.
Also they asked me about linear hashing and garbage collection.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2020
Interview
OAs were comparatively easier. First OA had debugging questions which required less efforts. Second OA needs some leetcode medium practice. Third OA has simulation round comprising only of Amazon LPs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OA2
Disk Allocation - leetcode question
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