Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I failed in the phone interview. It has two phone interview. One after the other one. Two independent interview. I'm kind of lucky, they asked me a same question. "How to find the position of a number in an array." If you read the interview book before, the questions they asked are not difficult. But I didn't read it before. So I'm responsible for my fail.
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Question 1
Give a data structure which can push, pop, find-min in O(1) time.
OO Design about a chat server
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2012
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I had two phone interviews. The first one was basic and we opened a code editor and worked through an anagram problem. The second one the guy wasn't nearly as enthusiastic and we just worked through a solution on the phone. Know your Big O and data structures, and basic algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm to find out if two words are anagrams of each other.