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Interview Question for Software Engineer at Amazon.com:

Apr 28, 2009

You are to write a spell checker. Discuss the API, Data Structures and Algorithms.

Tags: data structures, programming, algorithm, api, spell checker
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Apr 28, 2009

by Interview Candidate:

Did not know the answer but worked through the answer interactively with the interviewer. This was during a phone interview. Did not get the full solution, but still got accepted for the site visit.
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Jun 9, 2009

by uffe hellum:

two parallel approaches are needed:

sounds like (mapping)
single typo (search by character)
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