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The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Dec 17, 2013

The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?

First: 1) Find out if there's a loop in a linked list 2) Reverse all words(not characters in each word) in a string 3) Design a parking lot Second: 1) Given a node, find its successor node in a BST(follow ups: in place, with or without root node, parent node) 2) Given str1 and str2, find if they are rotated strings of each other
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Software Development Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Feb 24, 2014

First: 1) Find out if there's a loop in a linked list 2) Reverse all words(not characters in each word) in a string 3) Design a parking lot Second: 1) Given a node, find its successor node in a BST(follow ups: in place, with or without root node, parent node) 2) Given str1 and str2, find if they are rotated strings of each other

The third and final question was the follow: Write an efficient function that returns the n’th Fibonacci number (There are many ways to solve this problem. Please write the most efficient method possible). Each Fibonacci number is the sum of the last two. The first 10 are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 3, 2014

The third and final question was the follow: Write an efficient function that returns the n’th Fibonacci number (There are many ways to solve this problem. Please write the most efficient method possible). Each Fibonacci number is the sum of the last two. The first 10 are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55

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