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      Software Development Engineer I Interview

      4 Aug 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2011

      Interview

      They sent me an email stating that they would like to set up an interview for the position of Software Development Engineer I. Seemed like they were pretty adiment about interviewing me because this was the second person that tried to interview me over about a month. The phone interview was technical in nature. They asked questions about Data Structures, Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming and Design (at Amazon they primarily use C++, Java, Perl, Ruby), and Problem Solving. The final part of the interview was a coding exercise. The interview in total lasted about 45 minutes.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Say you had a dictionary of words. How would you set it up? And what would you do if you needed to search for a word (what type of search)? About how long would it take for you to search for the word using Big O notation?
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