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Software Development Engineer (SDE) I Interview Experience - Canada

February 5, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received an online assessment that was easy to pass. It consisted of two technical questions, followed by a large number of behavioral questions with a couple of math-based ones interspersed.

The interview was relatively easy, but I did not prepare enough for the technical portion.

Questions

One question involved receiving a list of tuples. Each tuple contained a package name in the first spot and a dependency for that package in the second. The task was to find the optimal order of package installation for all packages and dependencies.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I role in Canada.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Development Engineer (SDE) I roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral40%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview process in Canada.

Amazon Work Experiences

Great and scrappy

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

August 23, 2021

Pros: There are resources to develop as you want.

Cons: You are always going to have pending work.

Great and scrappy

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

August 23, 2021

Pros: There are resources to develop as you want.

Cons: You are always going to have pending work.

Challenging Work, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Learning. Challenging work. Large scale.

Cons: Cutthroat culture. Either out-perform or get out.

Challenging Work, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Learning. Challenging work. Large scale.

Cons: Cutthroat culture. Either out-perform or get out.

Good Comp, Bad Politics

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

August 14, 2022

Pros: Decent manga comp. Some teams are good, but YMMV. Some stimulating problems to be solved.

Cons: Workplace politics determining your career progression. Cult-like leadership principles that you can arbitrarily manipulate to further your own goals. On-call/labor demands outside of 9-5. Often limited by bureaucracy and meetings. It's very possible for you to be pressured into work, and that work to be discarded by the company entirely.

Good Comp, Bad Politics

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

August 14, 2022

Pros: Decent manga comp. Some teams are good, but YMMV. Some stimulating problems to be solved.

Cons: Workplace politics determining your career progression. Cult-like leadership principles that you can arbitrarily manipulate to further your own goals. On-call/labor demands outside of 9-5. Often limited by bureaucracy and meetings. It's very possible for you to be pressured into work, and that work to be discarded by the company entirely.

Great and scrappy

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Current Employee

San Jose, California, United States

August 23, 2021

Pros: There are resources to develop as you want.

Cons: You are always going to have pending work.

5.0
Great and scrappy
Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Current Employee
San Jose, California, United States
August 23, 2021
Pros: There are resources to develop as you want.
Cons: You are always going to have pending work.

Challenging Work, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Learning. Challenging work. Large scale.

Cons: Cutthroat culture. Either out-perform or get out.

4.0
Challenging Work, Toxic Culture
Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
March 10, 2022
Pros: Learning. Challenging work. Large scale.
Cons: Cutthroat culture. Either out-perform or get out.

Good Comp, Bad Politics

Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee

August 14, 2022

Pros: Decent manga comp. Some teams are good, but YMMV. Some stimulating problems to be solved.

Cons: Workplace politics determining your career progression. Cult-like leadership principles that you can arbitrarily manipulate to further your own goals. On-call/labor demands outside of 9-5. Often limited by bureaucracy and meetings. It's very possible for you to be pressured into work, and that work to be discarded by the company entirely.

3.0
Good Comp, Bad Politics
Software Development Engineer (SDE) I • Former Employee
August 14, 2022
Pros: Decent manga comp. Some teams are good, but YMMV. Some stimulating problems to be solved.
Cons: Workplace politics determining your career progression. Cult-like leadership principles that you can arbitrarily manipulate to further your own goals. On-call/labor demands outside of 9-5. Often limited by bureaucracy and meetings. It's very possible for you to be pressured into work, and that work to be discarded by the company entirely.

Amazon Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

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