Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE1 interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer SDE1 roles take an average of 21 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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The interviewer was in bit of a hurry. Even after giving the correct solution, i received a mail that position has been filled and they would transfer me to a different position as my performance was satisfactory.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Luis Obispo, CA) in Feb 2022
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There was an initial one hour technical interview (remote). Then there were four 1 hour technical interviews in the second round (typically in office, but was remote due to pandemic). These were on the same day with an hour break for lunch.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
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Round 1(Hackerearth Round – Coding Challenge): Two questions were asked to solved.
Based on the priority queue
Based on the map
I solved both questions within 40 minutes.
After few weeks got a call for scheduling interview rounds.
Round 2 (Technical Interview): Two questions were asked, along with the behavioural questions.
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Question 1
First question was based on the binary search
Second was a DP problem with binary tree.