Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
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Applied through university's career website in Jan 2012
Received phone interview request one month later.
2 sections of phone interview, each 45 mins.
Mostly typical technical questions, including binary, C/C++ programming, OOP design, script language