Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied through my college career website . This interview was on campus. The interviewer asked about what interesting project I have done and an algorithm question about String.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2013
Interview
I submitted my resume in a school job fair and got reject. But, HR man emailed me to invite the final on-site interview.
In the interview, I met 2 teammates and got one task each. While solving the task, we needed to meet 4 interviews to talk about the task I was doing.
To solve my question, I need to use Map. I got rejected from the interview. I think my way to use Map is not good as other members.
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Question 1
I don't remember exactly because the description of that is too long to remember. The problem seems like real issues of Amazon, not like simple data structure and algorithm questions. I need to use Map effectively.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2015
Interview
The interview itself was 45 minutes long and over the phone with two interviewers. Only one did the talking and was quite nice. They first described what they did at Amazon then asked me about myself. I completed my interview questions in Java using CollabEdit. Overall the experience was a positive one.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you implement a class that takes a list of strings and allows you to lookup whether a certain string is in it or not.