Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Haiderabad) in Apr 2012
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First round was online coding +apti. Aptitude was kind of moderately difficult and the coding questions were pretty simple. But you must be aware of using libraries in any language so that you don't have to code all of it. For example, my question required sorting and I was coding in C. I had to switch to Java so that I could use Collections.sort(). Couple of weeks past, I got a mail for telephonic interview which was primarily based on my CV. My skills and projects were asked. Apart from that some basic binary tree coding problems were asked. Next, I was invited for on-site interview where I went for rounds after rounds. Until the third round I could see people walking out. For the fourth and the final round, only 5 out of initial 50 candidates remained.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
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Applied online and received interview notice by email. However, the HR is horrible, asked me if interested in an intern. I said "YES". but he still put me on the list for a full-time. I made a mistake on the interview(nevous), and then heard nothing form him. No offer and rejection notice, no futher interview notice. The interview process is also horrible, the interviewer either forgot the time to call or could not got through by phone. Both my friend and me wait a whole afternoon but only received a reschedule notice.
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Question 1
1.Implement merge sort
2. reverse a single linked list
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2012
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1 Online Round + 4 Technical Round
Questions were mainly based on Binary Search Trees and Linked Lists.
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Question 1
You are given a nxm matrix having unique integers, each column is sorted in ascending order. You have to select one integer from each column such that the difference between the minimum and maximum of the selected numbers becomes minimum.