Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jun 2013
Interview
About two to three phone interviews and then in office interview at Seattle office. Amazon people are very friendly and smart and their questions make a lot of sense. I feel really good about the experience for interview at Amazon. I would be happy if they chose me for an in person interview at Seattle.
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No difficult question. the interview walks you through the answer and helps along the way. Just be good at algorithms and some languages like C++ , java, etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The first round comprised of an online test which comprised of 20 MCQ's which included questions of both aptitude and computer fundamentals and two questions to code.The next round was an interview round which was approximately of about 45 minutes.Basically,our programming fundamentals were checked.We were given a question and we had to suggest the most optimal solution.
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Question 1
The questions were:
1) Finding the kth element from the last in a linked list.
2) monkey problem