Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Applied online. Got an email several days later for an online assessment. It has 3 problems and has to be finished in 90 minutes. You can use either C++ or Java. One of the questions is to determine whether a linkedlist has loop. It is not hard.
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One of the questions is to determine whether a linkedlist has loop
Two back to back interviews - both technical. In the first interview, a brief resume walkthrough and then a few questions about multithreading, trees etc. Then he asked me how to implement a queue using 2 stacks, how to do an in-order traversal of bst without recursion, compare time complexities of different operations in linked list and hash table. In the 2nd, he asked to implement algorithm to solve the word ladder problem given a dictionary. And how to implement a stack that supports minimum operation in O(1).
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He asked how to optimize BFS for the Word Ladder problem