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they only focus on two things, generic architecture level discussion, how would you design a specific scalable system. Mostly question will pose an ongoing problem in the group and you need to brain storm solution with them. Nothing that difficult , it is only that you need to apply common sense. second thing they focus is your people management skills, again all question are really practical and if you try to give a bookish answer you will be caught..so if you do not really believe in your answer you will not be able to make it...for e.g. "you have an excellent super brillant team member in your team, better than all others but his behavior is bad, he does not talk properly if someone approaches him for help of solution, he literally insults them...what would you do"... Now reallt think about your answer...if you want to preach this guy..it will not work out..it is his nature...do you really want to throw him out of your team...ha ha you probably will not like to...because these kind of people bring 10X value to organization...what will you do... similarly there are many trap questions..if you try to be politically and inetrview wise correct you will not make it...
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Apr 27, 2014

they only focus on two things, generic architecture level discussion, how would you design a specific scalable system. Mostly question will pose an ongoing problem in the group and you need to brain storm solution with them. Nothing that difficult , it is only that you need to apply common sense. second thing they focus is your people management skills, again all question are really practical and if you try to give a bookish answer you will be caught..so if you do not really believe in your answer you will not be able to make it...for e.g. "you have an excellent super brillant team member in your team, better than all others but his behavior is bad, he does not talk properly if someone approaches him for help of solution, he literally insults them...what would you do"... Now reallt think about your answer...if you want to preach this guy..it will not work out..it is his nature...do you really want to throw him out of your team...ha ha you probably will not like to...because these kind of people bring 10X value to organization...what will you do... similarly there are many trap questions..if you try to be politically and inetrview wise correct you will not make it...

Though I was interviewing for a manager role, it was for a technical team so I was asked to design a million-disk array alerting system. They seemed to be looking for my understanding of disk arrays and the complexities of alerts/managing of large systems.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Sep 26, 2014

Though I was interviewing for a manager role, it was for a technical team so I was asked to design a million-disk array alerting system. They seemed to be looking for my understanding of disk arrays and the complexities of alerts/managing of large systems.

You have balls of four color (red blue green yellow). There are 10 balls for each color. They are randomly distributed in 4 boxes. You can pick any ball from any container (obviously you won't know the color of ball till you take it out) What is the minimum number of balls you have to pick to make sure you have two balls of the same color?
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Dec 12, 2010

You have balls of four color (red blue green yellow). There are 10 balls for each color. They are randomly distributed in 4 boxes. You can pick any ball from any container (obviously you won't know the color of ball till you take it out) What is the minimum number of balls you have to pick to make sure you have two balls of the same color?

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