Interview Question for Software Developerelopment Engineer at Amazon.com:

Yes, I now realize I was at a huge disadvantage having been out of school so long and not having a Master's degree. I have a lot of great experience and had great grades, but they didnt ask me anything about it. I just didnt have the recent theoretical background to solve this as fast as they wanted me too, but I think if they gave me another hour I would have been in the ballpark. After making lots of assumptions to simplify it, I figured it could be solved with a sorted multi-hash map or an array of sorted BST's. But the interviewer said I ran out of time and didnt let me demonstrate my solution. I sensed he knew I was on the right track, but he cut me off. I think he was upset that I couldnt figure it out in 5 minutes. I liked the challlenge initially, but after the interview and observing overall the way they treated me overall, my personality and style would not be a fit, so all the better I didnt work for that group.