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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Good luck with your interview. It was not hard, usual questions asked but the process is way too long and unnecessary, you don’t need that many rounds to know if a person is a good fit or not, keep dragging it for too long
Split between behavioural and technical interview.
Behavioural will entail a question based on one of the Amazon leadership principles, and will have follow-up questions based on this.
Technical will involve a Leetcode medium or harder question.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time where you didn't know what to do.
Assessment + four rounds of talking to potential team mates and it includes both behavioral and technical questions that are similar to leetcode and also a system design question that involved designing some type of system in a scalable manner