Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied for back around the end of 2012. I got an email a few weeks later from a recruiter scheduling a technical phone interview with me at a certain time on a certain day. When the day and time came, I waited for 20 minutes and they never called or contacted me in any form. I sent them an email saying that I never got contacted by the interviewer, and I didn't get a response until nearly 24 hours later. I find this to be unprofessional, and when we tried to reschedule it, they said that a lot of the employees wouldn't be around during the time. At this time, I also had a job offer that I had really wanted, so I declined any other interviews/interview attempts with them.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2013
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Got in contact through college career fair. Had a 45min on-campus interview 3 weeks later. The interviewer was very friendly, he gave helpful hints on how to solve the coding problems. He walked me through my code and pointed out where needs improvements.
Some problems he asked were:
Given an integer array, find any integer that occurs more than once.
Given a binary tree, test whether it is a BST.
Given two random nodes in a tree, not necessarily a BST, find their common parent.
They really focus on memory usage and time complexity of your algorithm/data structure.
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Given any binary tree, write an method to test whether it is a Binary Search Tree
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sep 2013
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Amazon's Work culture is among the best a software guy will get . Interview process was descent . Each of the candidate was addressed personally .
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the first round for this position was Written test. Following are the questions -
1. Write a program to find next largest element in binary search tree.
2. Write a program to search element in circular sorted array
3. Write a program to reverse a linked list in a chunk of 3 . ex. consider the following linked list 1-2-6-75-33-10-5-3-2 , then the output should be 6-2-1-10-33-75-2-3-5.
i was not shortlisted . so it might help others .