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      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      8 May 2012
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012

      Interview

      I applied online at my school's job/internship site and got offered an on-campus interview. It consisted of two half-hour long sessions (with two different developers) where I was asked to solve a few different programming problems. While I'd like to keep the exact contents confidential, I think it's safe to say DATA STRUCTURES, DATA STRUCTURES, DATA STRUCTURES. If you know data structures, you will probably be fine. By "know", I mean common structures (hash table, linked list, array, stack, queue, heaps, binary trees, self-balancing binary trees) and space/time complexity for various operations. I didn't get a strong grasp of the people/office/work culture just from this interview experience, but later on I talked to a manager in my intended division and received a generally positive impression (although my overall impression is that Amazon likes to work its employees hard).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I don't want to give the exact interview question, but here's something similar that any company might ask - given a binary tree and an integer corresponding to a level in the tree, print the contents of the nodes in that level of the tree from left to right.
      Answer question