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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2010
Interview
This was a set of three phone interviews where I was offered pop quizes on coding problems. A new grad would be more comfortable in this type of interview. It has been quite a long time since I have been quized on basic coding and algorithms.
While in my current role I constantly interface with my employees, customers, management and partners I am not thrown brain teasers, but I am asked relevant questions to the technology and product suites of the company I work for.
I found myself a "deer in the headlights" on very easy questions. My brain froze and I struggled to unlock it for even just a moment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic coding questions that would normally have been EXTREMELY easy:
shuffle an array in place in O(n)
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Nov 2009
Interview
They asked me (1) reversing a single linked list (2) Implementing a queue with stack as the internal datastructure (3) Why OO programming (4) Most challenging project and why? (5)Polymorphism/overload/override concepts etc etc..
Overall I did well, but no response from them until now..I am still waiting..Just happened last week.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2008
Interview
I came across an opportunity at Amazon for Senior Software Engineer through Dice.com and landed up with a phone interview. The interview was relatively short on algorithms and some trick questions. To my surprise, i had not cleared the interview and did not get any further communication through Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to detect loops in a linked list without using a data structure