Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online and was gives two time slots to choose from for scheduling the interview. It was two telephonic calls of 1 hour each. Both were done using a shared doc. The interviewers were very patient and helpful. Was a pleasant experience though I wasn't given an offer for the position.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2014
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It was on-campus interview. I applied before the school career fair and got scheduled the interview during it. There were two questions asked by two different interviews. The first question was: given the inorder traversal of a n-ary tree where every node can have either n or 0 children, and is marked "p" if that node has n children, or marked "q" if that node has 0 children, try reconstruct that tree. The second is a design question: given two huge user action logs where each log item has a user id, a document id and access time, try find out the documents that are accessed by two or more users and on two or more different days.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2014
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Referred by a friend of mine who is an employee. A few days following the referral I was contacted by a recruiter who asked for a current version of my resume and gave me an overview of what the team I was interviewing for did. A few days later I had a phone interview in which we discussed my background as well as solving a coding problem live on colabedit.com.
About half a week after the phone I was asked to fly up to Seattle for an on-site interview. This consisted of 4 back to back interviews (including one lunch interview). The lunch interview is all behavioral. Of the other three, 2 were about 33% behavorial, 66% whiteboard coding. The last interview felt more like a knowledge test, being asked a series of basic algorithm and data structure questions pretty rapid fire.
Having told them I had other offers outstanding, the recruited informed me that they would have a decision within the next two days. Received their decision by call the day following the interview
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Be sure you know all the nitty gritty details about how various data structures are implemented