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The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2010
Interview
Had a 45 minute interview with a SDE on phone . The interviewer gave brief introduction of the project that i may be working on ,then he asked basic Object Oriented programming and java language questions . Finally asked me to write code on a piece of paper and read it back to him. Got a reply by email after 5 days that they will look for other candidates
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Question 1
Implement a single linked list add and size methods using java ?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2010
Interview
I had two rounds of 45min-phone interviews from amazon. They are all technical interviews, only the first one involves 1 question about my project that is not that technical. Other than that, all coding questions!
Depending on your coding speed, he/she will ask you about 2-3 questions. he/she usually starts by asking you to write an algorithm and then asks for runtime/space complexity, then asks if you can do better.
You might expect to read all your code to the interviewer, or he/she might send you a link to online notepad so that he/she can see you typing.
Overall the experience is pretty good.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How to find the unique integer in an array, where all the other numbers appear twice.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2010
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2 round phone + onsite. Questions asked were
(1) Desiging deck of cards
(2) Algorithms for card shuffling
(3) String reversal algorithm
(4) Project details
(5) Efficient Coding on string algorithms
(6) Scalability and questions on how to scale web applications
(7) Networking and identifying problems in networks
(8) Tree/graph traversal algorithms and applications in social area.
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Question 1
How to identify network / traffic congestion and debug scenarios and tools