I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2010
Interview
Applied online for a software engineer position for new college graduates. Emailed a few recruiters using Linkedin to get my resume noticed. Received an email to setup a time and date for a phone interview. Phone interview was 45 minutes long, all technical. I will admit that this was my first technical phone interview, so my nerves got the best of me and I didn't answer the questions well. I was expecting conceptual questions instead I got coding questions. My interviewer was talking on a speakerphone and I had some trouble hearing/understanding him which didn't help.
First question was something like, "Write a function that takes an integer and prints out the digits separated by commas. Example input 345, print out 3,4,5 "
Second question was basically write the merge sort function and apply it to two arrays.
Like I said before, this was my first technical phone interview so I was trying to figure out how to answer the questions over the phone. I described the method I would use to solve each problem, but he wanted me to tell him the actual code. Didn't go so well, and I didn't get an offer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a function that takes an integer and prints out the digits separated by commas. Example, pass in 345 print out 3,4,5
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
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Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
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Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.