Amazon Software Development Engineer-II interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2014
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Two phone interviews and onsite interviews. I work at another company for 8+ years.
Be as detail oriented as possible. Positive phone interview and negative onsite interview process, too less of time
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1. Expression evaluation
2. How would you design a system to sync bookmarks across various devices
3. How would you design a telemetry system that alerts if a transaction takes over X seconds, multiple components involved in between
4. Vendor says he has not received payment for the goods sold, what would you do
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Pekín, Pekín) in Mar 2012
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4 rounds plus one extra round for coding for me.
I was interviewed 4 rounds from morning to lunch time. The company prepared the lunch for me so I took it with my last interviewer.
The content of the interview is interest, nothing about programming language, but about solving problem and how to think.
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How to solve a DB deadlock?
I've no background about DB, so it's too hard for me.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2014
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Technical Question: I was asked to write code on collabedit: Program to do a spiral traversal of matrix
I was asked which programming language I would choose between C and C++ and why? This was followed-on by some more questions - when would you not choose C or C++?
I was asked to mention my best project and describe what I liked in this project. I was then asked what was the thing you do not like in the the project you like best?
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What was the thing you do not like in the the project you like best?