Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I got email from HR, and setup an phone interview in September, 2013. The phone interview is with a SDE from kindle team, he talked about 5 minutes about his job and team and start to ask some questions related with my previous projects, then as usual, we begin coding questions. How to find a number in a rotated array? which is pretty common
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2013
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On campus interview. Two 45-minutes interviews. All algorithm questions. First one was more emphasis on well structured data. Second one was more advanced.
I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2013
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I applied online, and after six months, they sent me an email. We scheduled a meeting, it was with a Developer from Seattle, it was pretty good, some hard questions and background check, and after that we did a coding session using a collaboration board. After a week, they wold me that I did not passed the interview.
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Differences on memory handling between C++ and Java.