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Amazon coding questions

I have a phone screen with AWS soon. Do you know if the engineers prepare their own questions or if there’s some kind of question bank? I’m just wondering how consistent the phone screens are or is it purely team dependent? I know at OCI it’s super team dependent and pretty much whoever the hiring manager wants to ask to do interviews.

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aYLx06 Sep 4, 2018

They have asked me h index, k closest points from origin, merge 2 sorted lists, longest prefix, LRU Cache, vertical order tree traversal, and a simple BFS.

Comcast JygG83 Sep 4, 2018

They asked you all of those in one 45 min phone interview?

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aYLx06 Sep 4, 2018

No, those were just ones they’ve asked me in general.

Amazon S.Nadella Sep 4, 2018

I got lfu cache, dijkstra, and a 2d dp question not on leetcode but I found on geeksforgeeks. The first 2 were onsite, last one was in the phone screen. They waste a lot of time on behavioral questions so you have to code very fast in the little time left for the technical part.

Intel makeamove Sep 4, 2018

Were they insistent on providing dp solution? Or was recursive ok?

Amazon S.Nadella Sep 4, 2018

I only had 15 minutes so I did recursion with cache.