Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon
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I applied online from Amazon.com and got a phone interview by hiring manager within one week. He asked a few tech problems which use hash and large scale. I wasn't prepare enough so failed. It is not hard actually
They saw my profile from LinkedIn.com and contacted me first. They suggested me to interview and adjusted schedule. I didn't have any phone interview. They called a few times, however, those were a simple check for my experience, education, etc. and they provide interview prep tips. There were four interviewers, each of them took about 50 minutes, and the all the interview took 4 hours. First interviewer asked about my experience and ask simple algorithm, data structure, etc. Second interviewer asked to solve 2 quiz. Third interviewer asked some object-oriented topic. Forth interviewer asked to design some system.
After a week, they offered.
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Write a code to traverse a tree without recursion.
I had 4 phone interviews with them. 45 minutes each. I was asked with general questions like introduce myself, what I have done previously other than projects from university. Then moved on to typical coding questions. Some of them were fairly easy, just some algorithms and data structure questions. And i was given a problem to code online as well. Although they were easy, I stumbled a little, and did not get the offer.
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