Initial phone screen by engineer manager, basic computer science questions, collections, big O, work experience
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2nd phone screen with online coding via colabedit.com some quick question regarding web servers and http. Most of the time was a coding example re students, tests, quizzes and calculating a class score.
On site interview met with 6 engineers all afternoon about 6 hours total.
Most were technical solve on the white board type questions one was more of the out of the box type of questions.
The coding questions were varied but all were more that a quick algorithm more like here is a problem write the code to solve it.
Things like there are n people in a circle and every y person mus sit down write the algorithm to do this. Then If I am the first person in the circle how can I make sure I amd the last person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Again solve this on a white board. Heard of the game Boggle. Ok then write an algorithm to solve a boggle came of 7x7 board.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
I have initiated communicated with recruiter via linkedIn.
On next day the first phone interview has been scheduled.
At total, during next 2 weeks had 4 phone interviews.
After last one i have been invited to fly to Seattle for one day on site interview.
The overall experience is very positive.
The recruiters works very fast, waited no more for 2 days to get result from phone interview.
The onsite interview I did on Friday and next Tue afternoon I got a job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions was very interesting but nothing not expected. Cannot share more information, since has been asked not to publish it.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
2 phone interviews followed by one written exam and onsite interview. Most of the questions are around algorithm and data structures. Look for trees and hash tables and distributed designs
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, MA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Reached out to Amazon Recruiter via LinkedIn. The Recruiter responded very quickly. After a Phone screen by the recruiter, got scheduled for a local Hiring-event in Cambridge.
The interview was a typical 4-hour long event. 5 different sets of people, each chatting for about 45mins. I did 4 of the 5 okay...took a little longer to come up with the answer they were looking for in one case. Oh well...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to generate a "Unique Ticket" for each request. The number of requests could be quite large - up to a million per second.