“I won't give away the questions asked, as that would violate the NDA I signed. (Because I might actually want to work there some time down the road...)

But I will say this: Almost every coding and design question asked has been posted on Glassdoor. While I am a very experience programmer, I recognized long before the interview process, that I would need to put in some long hours preparing for this company. I spent a lot of time spent refreshing myself on data structures and applying that to problem solving. I went through like fifty Amazon programming questions posted here. I copied each one down, and made a note of the number of times an equivalent variation of that question was posted. Then I made sure I could solve each one with my own code. Extra attention given to the problems posted multiple times.

Prior to my interview, I had heard from many friends who interviewed at Amazon that they were asked at least one question involving a hash table. Amazon is famous for asking questions about hash tables. Either they ask about the hash table constructs in various programming languages (like Java and Perl, hash vs. map, etc..), or a coding problem where the hash table affords an O(N) or O(1) solution. So if you are asked a question that involves looking up a value in one array and searching for a corresponding value in the same or other array - the answer likely involves "use a hash table".

Also, Amazon quizzes candidates on their ability to recognize runtime ordering of the coding solutions. So know your "big-O" notation (e.g. O(N), O(N lg N), polynomial, exponential, etc...)”

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“describe a program/algo (say in C) to find the L1 cache size of your underlying hardware. No parameters given like associativity, block size etc. You also do not have any mechanism that tells you if your cache missed or hit in the underlying hardware.”

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“you haev 4 processors 1 ghz,500Mhz, 500 mhz, 100mhz in a system and you have to utilize them completely. think for 5 min. take ur time and give final solution. ( including scheduling and all).”

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“Name a time that you provided excellent customer service and how can you provide Home Depot customers with a pleasant shopping experience?”

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“This job may require you to work in unpleasant weather conditions such as extreme cold and/or rain. Would you have a problem with that?”

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“Describe your masters dissertation project and why you decided to work for this project?”

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“Tell me about a time when you were persuaded to take action but chose not to.”

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“Describe a situation in which you had to make a difficult decision?”

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“Case studies. Brain teasers and non-traditional questions.”

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“None really. Was asked about Active Directory and VMware.”

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“What are your weaknesses, and how you overcome them”

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“All the usual questions you would hear from HR.”

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“Talk about your programming experience.”

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“why do you want to work in starbucks?”

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“How would you describe teamwork”

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“How do you deal with rejection?”

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“Marketing campaign”

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