Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I was contacted during the first week of February, approximately a month after I had turned in my application online. The email said it was to be a phone interview - split as two 45 minute sessions.
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Question 1
Given an entire repository of files, how would you find the files which contain a certain 10 digit telephone number.
Also, give a tool/library method to do the same as well as some OS commands
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
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I have been through 2 rounds for the software development engineer position. I have been asked about data structures.One is about the trees:
find the distance between 2 values in a binary search tree. Node will have value, left node and right node. Implement the function int Distance(Node root, int val1, int val2) without recursion.
The next question is about 2 arrays A and B.
the whole interview was easier than i thought, i was very nervous though, i didnt do good in my first interview, i didnt even had time to finish the programming question, the guy told me you are on right track but we are out of time :(
my second interview was easier, it was mostly OOP design.
but yesterday i got an email that they want 3rd interview
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Question 1
you have a binary tree (contains negative and positive number) find a path from root to a leaf node that sums to value K (K is given)
Design a GPS system.