Amazon sent 3 programming assignments to candidate via interviewstreet. I had to solve 3 problems within 90 mins. After passing programming screen. Candidates would meet 4 interviewers who gave programming problems. They do not review your resume, but test your coding ability. If candidates passes this onsite interviews, they will be assigned team based on their interest.
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Question 1
you and an opponent take turns choosing numbers either the first or the last element in an unsorted array , and all numbers are exhausted, winner will be the one who gets larger cumulative total sum of picked numbers. Code up the algorithm that player 1 will be the winner. Player 2 also has same strategy as player 1
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.