I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I got an interview through an employee referal. They reached out after about a month after my application. The two interviews were scheduled for the next few days so there was not a lot of time to prepare between being asked to interview and the interview itself. The interview consisted of two back to back technical 45 minute interviews over the phone. The interviewers were nice and helpful and understanding of my newbie status into computer science.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Few language specific questions on Java -- what are private/public/package, who can access variable and methods given one of these?
-What is a hashtable, how would you implement one?
-Binary trees/AVL trees, what can you tell me about them.
-Given two texts, x and y, where x < y, check if all the characters of x are in y.
-Given a string, find the longest repeating substring.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2013
Interview
I applied through a staffing agency for SDET I position, Telephonic interview was conducted. As I was not aware of Amazon process much I couldn't prepare well. I got call from SDET II on scheduled time.
She started asking about my current project, role in my project and difficulties I faced in that project.Then she gave me string problem, I had to write a method which should return count of numbers.
EX: Input "AABC32DE4P%@23Pu" output should be 32+4+23 = 59
I explained an algorithm to solve this, She asked me to it, I coded in Java. I took little extra time to fine tune it.
Then she asked me to write some test cases to test the above function, I gave around 10 test cases.
After this round I got mail saying I got rejected. I felt lack of preparation and awareness about interview process reasons for rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not a difficult one but due to lack of practice I took more time to solve it.
Telephonic followed by technical interview at Bangalore office.Worst interview of my life .Please boycott this esp in India.They didn't even ask for food after taking 2 hours of interview they said that 2nd round would be conducted 1 or 2 additional rounds will be there and after waiting for 1 hour the HR told to me you may leave for the day.
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