All questions fell along the lines of Amazon's 13 Principles. All were "Target Selection Interview" (TSI) style.
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Say the first word that pops up in your mind when you think about.... garden!
What are the issues when talking over I2C.
What can you do for us (when I had little knowledge of what this department actually does)?
What would you recommend to grow our business in the current customer community?
Intersection of 2 number arrays.
He said, what if elements have duplicate, I said no problem duplicate will be removed. He gave another example of arrays. var1[] = {1, 2, 2} var2[]= {1,2,2,1}
Interrogation style interview. Most question had multiple parts.
Implement a phone book that works with minimal memory and allows fast lookup.
You have 3 input streaming channels, 3mbps each. You need to deliver all of this (9mbps streaming data) via single output channel with 3mbps max bandwidth. You don't know the nature of the data, compression doesn't work, nobody you can ask about other requirements - you are the owner of the solution. The interviewer didn't provide any more clarification.
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