Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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Contacted via in-house recruiter. They were having a recruitment day in my area, so I went straight to the 1:1 interviews.
There were four interviews (three with managers and one with another SDE). The schedule for the way went: interview 1, interview 2, short talk with HR, short break, interview 3, interview 4.
The questions ranged from OO design to data structures. As usual, I had to give the {run,space}time complexity of each solution. After answering most questions, I had to describe how I would scale it up to Amazon.com-size.
I received a phone call 2 business days later. They informed me that they weren't moving forward with me. I appreciated the phone call... rather than receiving a generic email.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
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It was a on site 1:1 interview with four rounds. The rounds were very logical but I was out of touch with programming. I tried to solve every logic using my algorithm. I don't remember the questions but it every HR was asking different group of questions. I mean one of the HR asked questions about the link list, other about the data structure and so on.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Haiderabad) in Jan 2012
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Online test of 5 coding questions(easy) for screening to 1:1 interview round. I have heard there is phone interview as well for some people. I didn't have phone interview.
There were 5 round of 1:1 interviews in a single day in their office. They were mainly concerned about our coding skills - covering all testcases, etc..
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Question 1
Given a string "aaabbbcc", compress it, = "a3b3c2" . Given that output string's length is always smaller than input string, you have do it inplace. No extra space