Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE1 interview questions
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oa then interview online, the online assessment was okay but the interview were focused on systems design which I didnt prepared well and went quite bad. it was rought tbh
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2022
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4 rounds in 5 hour time span. Leadership principle questions and questions about projects for 30 minutes, followed by solving programming challenges for the next 30 minutes in each round.
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Question 1
Calculate an actor's/actress's bacon number, design classes to represent monsters in a video game, and two others I can't remember
3 rounds of vo with tons of behavior questions. overall a fun experience, but although I had answered all the questions, I still didn't get the offer. The questions are not too hard to answer.