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The most difficult question was to find the maximum contiguous subsequence in a bar chart. I was able to find a solution in O(N^3) which is basically the brute force method The idea is that given a bar chart with peaks and valley's, you should find the subsequence X which gives you the maximum area underneath the chart. For the life of me I couldn't think of the answer at the time, , I had a hard time visualizing it, however it's a classical computer science problem called "the maximum sum contiguous subsequence problem."
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Feb 7, 2013

The most difficult question was to find the maximum contiguous subsequence in a bar chart. I was able to find a solution in O(N^3) which is basically the brute force method The idea is that given a bar chart with peaks and valley's, you should find the subsequence X which gives you the maximum area underneath the chart. For the life of me I couldn't think of the answer at the time, , I had a hard time visualizing it, however it's a classical computer science problem called "the maximum sum contiguous subsequence problem."

The best way to prepare is to go to topcoder and practice a bunch of the questions there. They asked a question about infrastructure. They had me describe my companies infrastructure, and then grilled me on how to adapt it to AWS. Make sure you have at least some knowledge of all of AWS's systems.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 3, 2013

The best way to prepare is to go to topcoder and practice a bunch of the questions there. They asked a question about infrastructure. They had me describe my companies infrastructure, and then grilled me on how to adapt it to AWS. Make sure you have at least some knowledge of all of AWS's systems.

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