Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
First, a one-hour phone call with a couple of behavioral questions, a couple of algorithm and OO design questions and a coding exercise on a "whiteboard" web platform. Second, a one-hour coding review if they weren't convinced by the first interview. This coding review had three programming exercises in an IDE type system (compiler and syntax highlighting). Last, an on-site interview with managers and peers. It was four interviews in total, each one was an hour long with a mix of behavioral, algorithms, OO design and distributed design questions. In the last interview the questions aren't necessarily harder, but it's faster-paced and the pressure to answer correctly and in time is higher.
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Design an algorithm to find the number of instances of a target number in a sorted array.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Aug 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter who invited me to apply for a position at Amazon. I took an on-line coding test and did well enough to be invited to have a face-to-face interview with three developers and a manager. For each, I was asked several "situational" questions and asked to code a solution to a problem.
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Describe one time in your career when you wanted to do something better than you were asked/required to do.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Houston, TX) in Jun 2015
Interview
technical phone interview. The interviewer had couple of programming questions which required coding on a online website. The browser based tool was terrible because you are basically coding on a textpad from scratch. If you are used to using IDE, you will have some difficulties. Debugging the code is nightmare since you cannot put any breakpoints to test your code.
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Work experiences, linked list, double linked list, binary search tree. Big O