Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
1 hour phone interview. nice contact. Did not ask very much about me, answered questions about the company with pleasure.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
- How did you come to the idea of working for amazon?
- Tell me about a project, where you were project leader - what was difficult, what did you learn, how did you master the situation?
- What is an object?
- Diff abstract class / interface
- What's wrong with java? If you'd have the chance to change something in java, what would it be?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
The recruiter contacted me in mid-February, and scheduled phone interviews in mid-March. Phone screenings went well, and they flew me to Seattle for on-site interview in April. I met 3 engineers, 2 managers and 1 recruiter in one day, and even though I feel it works well, I get rejected in one week.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design an algorithm to tell how many shapes in the given bitmap image. Shape is defined as all the adjacency true bits.
For example, if the input looks like this, the answer is 4.
00001
11000
01101
10001
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2009
Interview
there were 2 phone screens before full day inhouse interview
there were 2 phone screens before full day inhouse interview
on phone : they asked data structures and problem solving questions
1. string reversal
2. binary tree
3. oops concept
in house :
1. db session , asked to write outer join queries
2. design session : write a design for a bus stand
3. tricky session : they gave me a puzzle - related to cryptography keys
4. find least common ancestors in a binary tree