Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in Feb 2012
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It was my second phone interview after a first phone interview 3 weeks back and a coding assignment. The interview surprisingly did not have any coding questions (although the first interview had coding). Most of the questions were related to OOPS/Scaling/DNS
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Describe a project you are working, tell me how would you scale the application to handle large data.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2012
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My friends hand in my resume and I get the on-site interview directly.
The interview process is basical, first have a lunch with several amazon employee. Then each candidate was brought to the room and start the interview. I had four interviews in total, and I did perfectly in the first one, the second one and the last one. I think they fail me because I didnt do well in the third one. So, just bear in mind that Amazon is very picky, if you screw up one of the four interviews, then you fail.
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How to save a dictionary.
Easy one, just use a trie. During the process, you will be asked questions about big O stuffs. Just remember your data structure
How to find every word in one paragraph and return back the 10 most frequently words.
Easy one again. Use a hashtable to store the words, after that, use a heap to return the 10 most
Numerical Roman numbers.
I screw up this one. That's because the interviewee gave me a sheet full of rules, but only two of them are useful in the first part.
First part: given a formatted Roman String and convert them into numbers.
Easy one, but I spend nearly 25 mins on it.
Second part: how to convert a number into Roman Strings.
Recursion will work. I only have ten mins, so the interviewee doesnt let me finish this up
You have a node, each have three fields: value, next and random. How to make a deep copy.
The interviewee is helpful, he gave me hints and I finally solve it. First copy the list with only value and next. Save each one in the hashtable. And then change the random value.
The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2011
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The recruiters were friendly; aced through 2 telephonic interviews and was invited to the on-site interviews. On the day of interview, I was interviewed by 5 amazonians; 4 tech and 1 lunch interview. I believe I did well in all but the first interview... After a week, I was notified that I wasn't selected to make a job offer. I guess I was disappointed, as I thought I did well, but wasn't made an offer. But, then your performance is relative to the other candidates they interviewed...