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AnswersFind max size of contiguous shape below, where X represents a shape and . is empty:
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.XXXXXX....
...X..XX..X
...XXXX....
..X.....X..
..XXX..XX..
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public int GetMaxShape(char[][] array) {
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AnswersAsked like 8 different behavioral questions that were supposed to exemplify Amazon values. I was unprepared for this, as many people say Amazon doesn't do this.
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For example, I was asked "Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem with a simple solution", "Tell me about a time when you increased efficiency", "Tell me about a time when you made a judgement call to take an unknown risk", "Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your team about something and how you reconciled it"| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Amazon SDE-2 General Questions and Comments - 0of 0 votes
AnswersFind all paths in binary tree that add up to a given sum.
Given a tree like this:2 3 5 4 8 6 -2 2
return {3,4}, {2,5}, {2, 5, -2, 2}
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AnswerDesign the "what other people bought feature." This was focused on database design/creating an api to lie on top of it, and he asked questions to see if I understood how dbs actually work(like what does group by do). I was given an example table with the schema of like
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itemID, purchaseDate, customerID
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Amazon SDE-2 Software Design - 0of 0 votes
AnswersDesign Amazon Questions and Answers. This question was to see how I code, and how I would modularize things. He wanted me to code every single thing as realistically as possible on a whiteboard.
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AnswersDesign a push notification system for android. Assume that we have 1 million users this year, but next year we will have 15 million. Assume that Google can handle infinite notifications per second.
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I still haven't found a good resource for studying for design questions like this one/the other ones I posted. I keep hearing to go to highscalability.com. This is the only resource I've found that might be helpful tbh. The designs were all about scalability/flexibility. This one was more about flexibility in design, and he said he wanted to see SOLID principles. There was little emphasis on OOP design.
- steez June 24, 2015The recruiter told me right after I arrived that I would get 3 coding sessions and 2 white boarding for systems design. I did not experience that - I got 1 coding session, 3 systems design and 1 behavior based interview with a manager who quizzed me on experience/asked random tech questions.
Unfortunately they won't tell you where you fail, so although I suspect my weakness was systems design I'm not sure what I can do to improve, and oddly, the internet is NOT full of examples.
Technically I don't know that I was even interviewing for SDE-2. It might have been Senior SDE because the other guys that were going with the same interviewers seemed much older than me, and felt the need to point out their experience level (more than mine)