Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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one round phone interview, basic interview questions, the interviewer is really nice. You can pass it by explaining your solution clearly. They will send you a website where you can code at. You will share the screen with the interviewer
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Santiago) in Jul 2014
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4 tech interviews 1 HR, LOTS of behavioral questions like : what's your biggest failure, why amazon, extreme working scenarios, salary, when can you start.
What's really anoying is that if you fail they don't give you any kind of feedback.
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Word soup game, find words in a 10x10 matrix from a dictionary
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Apr 2015
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one written and three face to face round. written round have 3 coding problem in hackerrank. written was quite simple. I had solved two problem. Then i have given two face to face round first they said to tell the algorithm if they satisfied then the allowed me to write the complete code.
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3 coding problem in hackerrank all of them are form basic algorithm.
first was find the number containing max frequency and its frequency.
second was given the max number of swaps create greatest after performing the given number of swaps.
1. give a first matrix and crate another second matrix containing all the shortest path from any given source of first matrix to all index there is also some blockage index.
2.given node having string and its children find rank of any given node parent have 1 rank. there are multiple node and we can add dynamically node.