Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2010
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I met with a very intelligent gentleman at CodeMash and I was asked if I would like to interview on the spot. I took them up on the interview, spur of the moment.
I found the skills questions to be vague, and the more you tried to formulate an answer the more requirements they would place in your way. I found it to be a great exercise and was happy for the experience. Not only did it shine a spotlight on my inability to think in code on paper, but I also learned some things too.
The interviewers were extremely polite and understanding if I was not familiar with a concept, they would attempt to educate you so that you can still formulate and answer to their question and/or problem.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2010
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After two initial phone screens, I was invited up to Seattle for a series of on-site interviews with two different teams. I started at about 8:30am and finished around 3:30pm, with several of my interviews running long. My last interview ran almost 45 minutes over its allotted time, but it was mostly because the open ended challenge problem allowed for significant discussion.
I spent the weekend in town and interviewed on Monday, and in general had a very pleasant experience.
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Question 1
Given a set of N servers, design a system to aggregate statistics (disk space available), and create reports (min, max, total, avg).
Given a set of N numbers, assume that you have the set of numbers from 1 to N+1, with the exception of one number. How do you determine what number that is? What is the complexity of your solution?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2009
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i got an email in hte month of november for a phone screen interview but i was busy back then.......so i had to schedule interview in december. this was my first interview and therefore dint perform well. but, i have an idea regarding the area i need to to brush up my skills at.