Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2010
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Had 2 sets of interviews after being referred for the intern position. Both were technical and included questions that were standard questions asked for this position and can be found online.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
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Submitted my resume at the departmental career fair around the end of January and got a call for an interview in the first week of February. All the interviews were on-campus.
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How would you find the common primes in two integers ?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
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The interviewers are quite nice. I have back to back 2 phone interviews, 45 minutes each, and 15 minutes rest between the two. Each interviewer asked me some algorithms problem, and then let me code. The problems are not very difficult, but I did not perform well so I was declined the other day.
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Question 1
Give me a sentence, and print the sentence reversely.
ex. input "he is a boy", output"boy a is he"