Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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It was a campus/ university hiring and process took a day. 1st round was written (20 MCQ questions + 2 coding questions).Those shortlisted after written round had 5 interview rounds ( 4 Tech + 1 HR round ) . Most of the questions were from Graphs , trees ,linked lists and some normal DP questions were also asked.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Champaign, IL) in Feb 2014
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The interviewer first ask you to introduce yourself, then dive into tech questions. The first interviewer asked about writing algorithms for testing whether a tree is Binary Search Tree or not. Then the second interviewer asked about how to calculate exponential.