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I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2010
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Got email from HR recruiter. Took 2 phone interview which were easy. flew to Seattle for on-site interview. hard enough to sweat. Lots of the questions were focused on algorithm & coding. They want you to be able to think on your feet. Practice to code on the board beforehand.
F2F:
a) find the top k repeated string in the list of string
b)Least common ancestor.
c)Finding the max sum of 3 element subset in an array.
1 10 6 1 0 32 4 ==>36
d)Design a In memory Voting System to handle concurrent users access
e) (Bar raiser)Multiple logs of server containing (time,sessionId,userId,Page) user can navigate page from 1 server to other server. find the three page subset sequence repeated maximum number of times
hint:- pushing all file data to DB we can solve this
f) Check weather string is a palindrome given a string as Interator<Character>
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
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I was contacted via email by a recruiter to set up a date/time for the technical interview. I had the interview about a week later. The interview wasn't too difficult, but I guess there was something the interviewer was looking for that I just didn't say. There wasn't anything on Algorithm analysis but the entire interview consisted of questions on data structures: HashTables, Arrays, Linked Lists, Binary Tree traversal.