Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2010
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The entire interview process was well organized. Had 2 phone interviews followed by an onsite. Questions involved basic algorithms and data structures. Required some coding.
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2010
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The interviewer was a nice person. He talked about the work environment of amazon. He asked two definition questions along with two programming questions. It sometimes took a little bit of time to set up the next interview but it was not too long.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2010
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45 minute phone screen describing related work experience. On-site interview consisted of five 45-minute interviews with a deep technical focus. Many coding and problem-solving questions were given. Difficulty increased to a fairly high level.
Areas included testing practices and testing experience, programming questions such as finding compiler errors, algorithm questions such as using hash tables, and design questions regarding client/server communication.
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Question 1
Design a client/server messaging protocol to facilitate a web-based spreadsheet program. What would the object model look like on the client side?