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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (West Lafayette, IN) in Feb 2013
Interview
Just been asked two questions
the first one is to write a sudo code for an binary heap to print out the 17th, 18th and 19th node's value.
the second one is to write codes to print out the maximum and the second maximum value in an array (not sorted). In order to reach the fastest, the interviwer gave me a hint to separate the situation with small array and large array..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just been asked two questions
the first one is to write a sudo code for an binary heap to print out the 17th, 18th and 19th node's value.
the second one is to write codes to print out the maximum and the second maximum value in an array (not sorted). In order to reach the fastest, the interviwer gave me a hint to separate the situation with small array and large array..
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2013
Interview
Phone Interview for Amazon Instant Video or LoveFilm. Write code in a sharing document (collabedit). The question was, using the UNIX file /usr/share/dict/words that contains one word per line, how would you get a random word out of the dictionary with the same probability for all the words in the file?
A couple of follow ups trying to improve time and space.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Using the UNIX file /usr/share/dict/words that contains one word per line, how would you get a random word out of the dictionary with the same probability for all the words in the file?