Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad)
Interview
THERE WAS A PHONE CALL WITH FORMAL INTERVIEW INVITE EMAIL.
- Then i was followed up by a written technical round which consisted of writing programs and coding related to OOPS concepts.
- Then i had a face to face interview after that which they asked the concepts related to datastructures and algorithms.
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Question 1
Types of sorting and differentiate them with examples.
two online assessment tests. One is coding test, the other is sort of logical test. Two question for coding test. The first one is that given a string, delete all 'a,e,i,o,u', and return the new string. the second one is that given two string, check if one is the other's rotation. "cdefab" is the rotation of “abcdef" the logic test is hard to describe, but I suggest you to convert all a-z to 1-26 as a list and have that list at hands when you are doing the test.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
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I got an internal job referral from a friend. Then the HR contacted me very soon and arranged for a telephone interview one week later. The interviewer was quite friendly and talked a lot about his past and current working experiences. I was asked to go for an onsite interview, but later it was cancelled.
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Question 1
No very unexpected questions. The interviewer asked me the most difficult thing I had experienced in the past 5 years.
I was asked to solve two programming questions using collabedit. One is to merge two sorted linked list and the other is to set matrix to zero. You can find both of the questions on leetcode.