Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2013
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I applied this position online. This is a back to back, two 45 minutes phone interview. There is a 15 minutes break between them. The first session is mainly about data structure include hash table, singly linked list. The second session talk both resume questions and code problems.
Fly directly to seattle to have a group interview. There are 3 people for one team. Each person will be assigned to one part. About 5 hours to complete the code. During the coding, everyone will have a 30 minutes individual interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2012
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I was interviewed in a room by five interviewers. It was only one interviewer at a time with 10 minutes inbetween each. They each asked one technical question and then followed that with a design question. All in all, the questions weren't that difficult or unexpected. Mostly standard stuff. Study your data structures.
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Question 1
Write a program to print all permutations of a string.