Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2012
Interview
Give them my résumé at school career fair, followed by a phone interview. They ask questions mainly on technical. Data structure and algorithms knowledge required to answer the questions. They also require you to write some code during the interview.
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All the questions are technical, nothing surprise. But their questions are not easy...
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2012
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Initially Amazon came for recruitment through campus placement. It then conducted a online skill test for shortlisting students for 1:1 personal interview rounds. I had 4 personal 1:1 interview within 4 hrs. In interview I was asked to implement basic tree algorithms. Stress was given on how correct algorithm is.
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How will you find lowest common ancestor of 2 nodes in a tree??