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Problems solving with coding on a whiteboard, including algorithms (binary search, DFS) and data structure (hash table, binary search tree, graph). Design problems (restaurant reservation system) and distributed system (map-reduce and distributed has table). Some behavioral questions.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 26, 2014

Problems solving with coding on a whiteboard, including algorithms (binary search, DFS) and data structure (hash table, binary search tree, graph). Design problems (restaurant reservation system) and distributed system (map-reduce and distributed has table). Some behavioral questions.

Their absurd quiz. Why would you ask someone to author a search algorithm from scratch when there are so many good ones available in open source and on various chat boards and blogs. A smart software engineer would never design one from scratch - he/she would look at what's been previously done (after all, it's NOT a new problem; it's been solved and optimized numerous times over), and select/adapt for one's specific application. I fail to see how this "quiz" helps differentiate good candidates from poor ones (IMO, it does quite the opposite).
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 6, 2014

Their absurd quiz. Why would you ask someone to author a search algorithm from scratch when there are so many good ones available in open source and on various chat boards and blogs. A smart software engineer would never design one from scratch - he/she would look at what's been previously done (after all, it's NOT a new problem; it's been solved and optimized numerous times over), and select/adapt for one's specific application. I fail to see how this "quiz" helps differentiate good candidates from poor ones (IMO, it does quite the opposite).

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