Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Two round phone interviews. Asked very basic questions:
1. How to sort 3 integers
2. Find books your friends read
3. Calculate the frequency of words in a string.
Point is how to approach the problem, use right data structure and algorighms
After not hearing back from the company for a couple of weeks, I finally received an email telling me that I will be having a phone interview the next day. They allowed me to choose between three time slots. All together, it was a 2 hr technical interview with two different interviewers. They used an online coding website so they interview can view your work
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Nothing really difficult or unexpected, just know your stuff. As you are writing your programming, make sure to explain why you are doing what ever you are doing. If you are going off track, they will help.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
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first phone interview with co-edit tool. then on-site, 5 people give question one by one, most not from common problem pool but not very hard to implement if your mind is clear.
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can't say the detail, but one DFS question about matrix adjacent numbers max. different interviewer tends to have question that they designed.