Amazon Software Development Engineer(SDE) Intern interview questions
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Software Development Engineer(SDE) Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer(SDE) Intern roles take an average of 150 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
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7 debugging problems in 20 min. Pretty difficult to complete all of them in time.
then 2 coding assessment questions, not hard.
Then an online personality workplace assesment that is easy .
Final interview is pure luck based upon how hard of a question your interviewer gives you. I got really lucky
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How can you construct a balanced binary search tree when you're given a sorted array.
I was asked 3 Online Assessments followed by a final interview which was about 45-60 min where I was asked leetcode level questions, and Leadership Principles. . . .
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3 OAs (debugging, coding, workplace simulation), then 1-45min live interview with an SDE. First half focused on leadership principles and a data structure question. Second half focused on solving LC-medium problem (could be solved using dp for better time complexity)
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What is a hashmap? When would you use and not use one?