Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
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Met Amazon representative at university career fair where they had me answer a small programming question. About a week later I received an email about an interview opportunity in seattle. I had the option to choose the most convenient date out of list.
In Seattle, I went through 4 technical interviews, about 45min each. They some simple algorithms questions such as tree traversals, binary search.
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Question 1
Given a tree, output a linked list of all nodes in the tree ordered by level. For example, root, then all nodes at the next level, then the next.