Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2014
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They contacted me through LinkedIn and offered an online test as a previous step for a personal interview. I said I was interested and in some days received the link to the test and some instructions.
A couple of weeks after the test they contacted me as a follow up, saying that I hadn't been selected
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Question 1
2 questions:
* Code a binary tree from an input of the like:
[2, 4], [1, 2], [4, 8], [5, 9], [1, 3], [2, 5], [3, 6], [3, 7]
* Design (OO Language) a billing system