I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2010
Interview
they asked about polymorphism, inheritance, protected&private access specifiers, sorting algorithms. Next, discussed about various data structures - array, linked list, hash tables - their complexity , differences,space requirements etc. 1 question in coding - check if all elements in one strings exist in 2nd string. Design question: design rss reader.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are 25 horses and only five tracks in a race.
How do you find the second coming horse of all the 25
horses, provided there is no stop clock? (obviously, a
horse cannot participate more than once in a race).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2010
Interview
A recruiter got my contact information from linked in and then emailed me if I was interested in working for Amazon.com. My answer was positive, and he setup a phone interview for me. This was phone interview for a SDET position with the kindle team. The interviewer was nice, she asked me few testing questions, one coding question, and she said recruiter will get back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of n numbers. All numbers except one are unique. Find the number with duplicate entry.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
The interview was set up by the recruiter. After confirming the interview time, the recruiter sent a short list of possible areas where the interviewer might ask technical questions. They stated that the questions will be over OOP, coding, algorithm, and data structures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on binary search tree. How to insert into tree. State big O.