Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jun 2016
Interview
Applied through referral turnaround time for it was short. The question asked were simple but i felt to write error free code on paper was difficult. Interview also got preponed at the last day by 1 hour , missed the first round
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Question 1
1st rounf f2f:
1. Given a snake ladder board , with the dice with favourable outcome. Find the minimum number of dice draws required to reach 100th position starting from 0. There are snakes and ladder in the game
2. Give K Sorted array , finally merge sort them.
3. Given a linked list with loop find the point where loop starts.
2nd round f2f:
Design a time based validation check that can be applied to api, for example hitting google's map api more then 50 times in a minute will result in error, similarly design a system that checks in the no of calls that are happing in the sliding windows of given size.
3rd round design:
Design a realtime ranking system , for example given a app like candy crush i would like to display user his current rank , globally, country wise etc
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
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phone interview with online coding, the problem was easy, but it seemed that the interviewer was expecting more, no idea ... and no offer... how long need I wait before applying the position again?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Tel Aviv) in Apr 2016
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1 phone interview - just to describe the process
1 online Hackerrank test (complete within 90 minutes) - the code must compile and run (has to be C++/C/Java)
1 interview day onsite - 4 45 minute interviews - all of which are technical
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Question 1
1. how to implement an online shopping site aggregator?
2. implement LRU cache