Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Fly directly to seattle to have a group interview. There are 3 people for one team. Each person will be assigned to one part. About 5 hours to complete the code. During the coding, everyone will have a 30 minutes individual interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2012
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I was interviewed in a room by five interviewers. It was only one interviewer at a time with 10 minutes inbetween each. They each asked one technical question and then followed that with a design question. All in all, the questions weren't that difficult or unexpected. Mostly standard stuff. Study your data structures.
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Write a program to print all permutations of a string.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
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I had three phone screens before getting a reject from them. The third one had a few theory questions related to stack and queue. One coding question. Coding question was something related to tree traversal..