Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
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I have a file containing below matrix information:
3 3
2 0 0
0 0 0
3 0 0
First row represents order of Matrix. 2 -- Start Point 3 -- End point 0 -- a city to be visited 1 -- a city you have no access
Find all possible ways to go from start to end city visiting all 0 nodes and avoiding all 1 nodes. In this case the possible solution is 2
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I have a file containing below matrix information:
3 3
2 0 0
0 0 0
3 0 0
First row represents order of Matrix. 2 -- Start Point 3 -- End point 0 -- a city to be visited 1 -- a city you have no access
Find all possible ways to go from start to end city visiting all 0 nodes and avoiding all 1 nodes. In this case the possible solution is 2
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
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I went to school's career fair where amazon held interviews. The whole interview took 90 minutes with 2 interviewers. The questions are pretty straightforward. The interviewers are quite nice and professional. I was given a lot of hints, but I misunderstood one of the hints and screwed up that question.
Question: what is hashtable? what is BST? compare them
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What is Hashtable? What is BST? How to avoid collision in hashing? Compare these two.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2010
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I got a call through on campus selection process. I had 4 interviews. Each interviewer were asking questions specifically on each area like databases, algorithms, object oriented concept, and puzzles. I think I did well in 2 interviews but OOPs concept questions were on case studies: like define classes for automating a elevator, fury system to go from one island to another. Rest of the interviews were really good. They were trying to understand how well you know about each technology.