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Interview Question for Senior Software Engineer at Amazon.com:
Aug 3, 2012

One of the interviewers asked me to implement a file system. What was in particular frustrating is that he left is so open ended as to the level of detail required, yet expected a specific answer and was unhappy that I took a different approach.


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Aug 3, 2012

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I hate such open-ended questions. I am sure it would come as a surprise, there is more than one way to do this, yet he appeared to be expecting a singular type of answer.
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