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      Software Engineer Interview

      22 Jan 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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]

      Question 1

      Find the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand on a clock given the hour, minute and second.
      3 Answers

      Question 2

      How do you find the fifth last element of the linked list using only one traversal
      3 Answers

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