I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
First phone interview, which didn't go well.
First question was about linked list traversal finding a node towards the tail. The algorithm I gave them ran in O(n), then they said it wasn't good enough, so I thought about reversing it and counting from the tail. That took up too much s...pace complexity so I was baffled for a while because I thought they wanted a much more efficient algorithm. Turns out they just wanted two pointers to traverse, which would only be faster than my original algorithm by a constant amount. I failed to see why that would make that much of a difference.
Second question was about Comparable vs Comparator. I NEVER used comparator during my years using Java so I couldn't answer that one.
Third question was finding duplicates in an array. Create another array to keep track of the repetitions, done.
Last question was the hardest - determining the angle between an hour hand and minute hand on a clock. I wasn't expecting a mathematical type question, plus I never really bothered to learn how an analog clock works that well anyway. I took a long time - and screwed up the formula for it, but basically it was dividing the degrees of each quadrant and applying what I know about hours and minutes to it. Didn't do that well - cause clocks aren't exactly my area of expertise.
Interview questions [2]
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Find the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand on a clock given the hour, minute and second.
Leet code question medium to gard then they snack you with a web app that you have to debug with a Very limited ai assistant that won't give you the answer but will read the files and tell you what they do
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Question 1
Leet code and assisted debugging and 15 pillar of Amazon leadership questions
Good interview process overall. The questions were mostly focused on general software engineering knowledge, with a strong emphasis on AI concepts. The interviewers were professional, and the process was well organized.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design and a lot of questions “imagine the situation”
The interview was basically a screening round, It was just a quick interview to get to know if I was worth the company's time. The dsa round was pretty easy but once they got into system design it was harder.
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Question 1
They asked dsa questions like trapping rain water and a stack question similar to valid parenthesis.