Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions

Process of interview on hiring event in Kiev. 1. They schedule time for performing an algorithmic task. You should solve small problem, cover it with unit tests in 1 hour. Some problems are simple, some are more difficult. 2. If you correctly fullfill the task they schedule time for main part: 4 interviews in a set for 45 mins each. No questions on specific language. They are interested only in your understanding of data structures (deep knowledge of hash tables, graphs, lists) and your ability to solve algorithmic problems (problems for uni directional nodes, working with rows of String data, finding paths in matrix and so on), understanding of big-O notation. Database design questions may be asked. Also they pay attention to your previous experience - you always need to be prepared to answer what was the most excited project, your worst experience, the project where you made great mistakes... And the give you time to ask them questions about Amazon WS. They listen and fix what and how you ask. And give you quite long and interesting answers.

You will be assigned to a group to solve a realistic problem. There will be N part in this problem where N is the number of people in your team. For example, if your team has 3 people, there will be 3 part of sub-problem. Each member only need to code 1 sub-problem, but everyone must understand all sub-problems and have a basic solution for these problems,