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I applied through other source. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2011
Interview
Amazon contacted me when I updated my resume on Monster. After a call from their recruiter, I was asked for a first technical phone interview. I did not do well in that interview, however I got asked to do a second technical interview in which you are asked programming questions I think I did better but I did not get the job.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Define the strategy pattern and when could it be used
How would you implement a priority queue. What is the O analysis of your implementation. How would you store a tree structure. How would you implement a tinyURL service.
given a tree write a function isSymmetrical that would find out if the tree is symmetric or not.
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Class Node
{
Node leftChild
Node rightChild;
int value;
}
//Write this method:
boolean isSymmetrical(Node treeRoot) {
Examples:
This is symmetrical
7
/ \
5 5
/ \
9 9
/ \ / \
2 8 8 2
This is not symmetrical (value difference):
7
/ \
5 6
/ \
9 9
/ \ / \
2 8 8 2
This is not symmetrical (structural difference)
7
/ \
5 5
/ \
9 9
/ \ /
2 8 8
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
The first interview was a written interview where the recruiter asked basic questions. The second interview was with HR as a screening interview to get to know my background. The third interview was technical and harder than I expected. He first asked me some basic object oriented coding questions, then asked me how I would solve a problem and finally asked me to write the code on paper and read it back to him line by line.
The interviewer was looking for a very specific method, not just the right code that meets the requirements.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What complexity would sorting add to an array list?