Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2012
Interview
Applied a SDE position online. An HR lady contacted me in a week and scheduled the first phone interview. The interviewer asked me to say a little about my background. Then asked questions focused on algorithm, time and space complexity, and a ransom note problem. The second interviewer asked some questions of hash table.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied using the university system and the interview was scheduled through that.
There seemed to be some problems with email communication since I would occasionally fail to receive emails that were sent to applicants.
There were a lot of interviews on campus (I think they interviewed at least 50 people within 2 days) so everything was well-automated. The format was 2 back-to-back 45 minute 1-1 interviews with developers from different teams.
In general, I would recommend brushing up on basic algorithms and also reading up on Amazon services, especially all the web and cloud systems.
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Question 1
Serialize (flatten) and de-serialize a binary tree. First describe the approach, then write the code.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2012
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I had on site interview marathon consisting of several in person one-to-one interviews with managers and team members and one with HR person. The interview set was set up by the company recruiter over email communication. Every interview had a smal QA session and then I was given one problem to solve and present it in corresponding way.