Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Two back to back interviews - both technical. In the first interview, a brief resume walkthrough and then a few questions about multithreading, trees etc. Then he asked me how to implement a queue using 2 stacks, how to do an in-order traversal of bst without recursion, compare time complexities of different operations in linked list and hash table. In the 2nd, he asked to implement algorithm to solve the word ladder problem given a dictionary. And how to implement a stack that supports minimum operation in O(1).
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He asked how to optimize BFS for the Word Ladder problem
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon
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The amazon recruiter was very kind and responsive.
The phone interview was scheduled after five-six days since the notification of job opportunity. It consisted of 2-5 minutes reciprocal introduction, followed by one technical question (see below) and the usual ending part with questions I asked them.
After few days I followed up to ask for feedback and shortly (same day) received the outcome.
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A constellation is a group of connected stars. Given a set of stars in the sky. Assume that each star takes up a square region (think of it as pixel). Given a specific star, find the constellation it is part of.
I was contacted via recruiter on LinkedIn. Had a couple of technical phone interviews.
First was about 30-40 minutes, was asked resume related questions and a couple of usual algo questions with coding on paper and reading it out.
Second was longer, about 50-60 minutes, more focused on databases and querying.
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All questions were decent, not too simple but not overtly tough either. However, key is talking though the entire process even during phone interviews while working on a problem.