Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2013
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After apply on their website, it will take about two weeks to get the online test email. After login with the account they provided you will have 90 minutes to finish 3 problems. After that, you have to finish a test that ask you what you will do under a certain condition, which does not have a time limit.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2013
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Questions on basic data structures and algorithms. Search and sort. Basic time complexity. Hardest data structure I had to work with was a LinkedList. If you know your stuff you can write code to solve all this on-the-spot. Interviewer was cool. Suggest practicing on Project Euler.
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Pull a random integer from the range 1, ..., N. Shuffle. Find missing integer, without re-sorting. Solution is to used closed-form sum of first N integers.