Amazon Software Development Engineer I Intern interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I 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.
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There are 3 online assessments to pass: debugging, data structures and a simulation (all technical questions are LC easy) and then 2 one hour back-to-back video interviews (behavioral and LC medium questions).
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Tell me about a project you did and a conflict you had with a colleague.
3 OAs over the course of a couple weeks. Not too bad. Just brush up on DSA, and be a reasonable human being for the last OA. If successful, there will be a final one hour interview.
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Asked two behavioral questions (5-15 minutes); center your answers around their principles! Rest of the time on 2 coding questions, focus on your thinking process than the actual answer.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2021
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3 Online assessments: Debugging, Coding, Work Simulation
1 virtual interview: behavioral and technical
Virtual interview: Starts with a few behavioral questions, about 10 minutes, then the next 35 minutes are for technical question and follow-up question.
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Leetcode easy level question. Brute force is O(n^2), less optimal: O(n log n), most optimal: O(n)