Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Madras) in Dec 2010
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Are you going to give an interview at Amazon.com? Get ready for lot of coding...I had around 8 interviews including 3 phone screens...Most of them are Coding + Algorithms & DS + Design.
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I was asked for a salable solution to index all Amazon pages then retrieve the pages based on users queries
1 Online coding round : Easy questions, if you are comfortable with algorithmic programming.
2 Phone screens : Basically test your problem solving skills and concept of DS.
5 Onsite rounds: Test your coding, problem solving, DS and algo skills. You have to write neat code for each problem.
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All were average questions, nothing seem stunning to me.