Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Applied and after a week got an online assignment which required to be completed. The assignment contained 3 questions which required to be coded in Java or C++
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Question 1
Deep copy of a list list containing a pointer to the next node and also a pointer to a random other node ( could be a node ahead in the list, the node itself, somewhere behind or NULL)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Started with online technical interview, fairly basic stuff like finding cycles in linked lists, reversing a string, etc.
Then they brought me out for an in-person interview. This was much more difficult, first two interviewers both asked tree related questions which I was prepared for. Then the third was all about object orientation. The fourth and final interviewer was more of a grab bag of random questions.
Surprisingly, only the first interviewer asked me about my previous projects. The fourth interviewer and I chatted briefly about them as he was escorting me out of the building.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a object oriented class for a vending machine.