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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2009
Interview
1) write a program to return smaller angle between hour and minute arrows of the clock. input parameters: hour of the day, minute of the hour, output angle between them (out of two angles choose smaller angle). how would you test your program, what kind of boundary conditions to use. 2) what programming language do you use.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2009
Interview
This is the first phone interview.
They asked some generic java and object oriented design questions and to write and read the code over the phone.
Write a program to give the fibonacci sequence and how to handle exceptions.
What is the time complexity of this and how to improve the program.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you debug a website that has slowed suddenly.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2009
Interview
The first phone interview is from the hiring manager. He asked me some coding questions, such as finding two integers from an array which sum to a given number, how to store IP addresses. The second phone interview asks a bunch of information retrieval questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, find two which sums to a given number