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1. Design a payment transaction system. 2. Performance improvement of a large website. 3. Given a sum, find the first pair of numbers that add the sum in an array. 4. Singleton patten. Issue with concurrent access. Over vs under locking.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Oct 14, 2012

1. Design a payment transaction system. 2. Performance improvement of a large website. 3. Given a sum, find the first pair of numbers that add the sum in an array. 4. Singleton patten. Issue with concurrent access. Over vs under locking.

Tell me about the worst employee you ever hired Tell me about the best employee you ever hired Tell me how you would approach development of a greenfield project where all the work as an open slate, and you had a list of features to be delivered in 6 months Tell me about a project you started where halfway through, you realized you made the wrong decision Tell me about a time when one of your employees did something you disagreed with. Tell us about a time when you had to work through multiple layers in an organization.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 17, 2016

Tell me about the worst employee you ever hired Tell me about the best employee you ever hired Tell me how you would approach development of a greenfield project where all the work as an open slate, and you had a list of features to be delivered in 6 months Tell me about a project you started where halfway through, you realized you made the wrong decision Tell me about a time when one of your employees did something you disagreed with. Tell us about a time when you had to work through multiple layers in an organization.

The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Dec 17, 2013

The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?

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