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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 12, 2011
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2011

      Interview

      2 rounds of phone interviews, then 6 on-site. Standard tech interview questions: binary trees, string parsing. Lots of discussion of memory management, performance, managed vs unmanaged code. Whiteboard coding of course. I ended up in a conference room where the interviewers came to me... this means that there were no breaks in between, so it ended up being rather rapid-fire and I wasn't thinking as clearly by the end of the day. All the interviewers were really nice though and would have been good coworkers. Amazon seems like a fast-moving company with a lot of cool stuff happening. They're getting big but they haven't realized it yet... they need to grow up a bit and realize that working people to the bone is not sustainable nor does it produce good long-term results. They offer a lot of money but it's not so mind-blowing once you figure in healthcare costs, no annual bonus, etc. Lots of stock in the compensation, so your comp is strongly dependent on how you think the stock will do. At a P/E of > 100 (as of 12/11), there's not a lot of headroom there.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      find the 2nd-largest node in a binary tree
      1 Answer
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