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Give me an example of a time when you had to work outside your comfort zone. How did you gain expertise in that area?
9 months ago
Given a log file with [timestamp, customer_id, webpage], determine the top 3 most frequently visited sequences of 3 webpages across all customers.
a year ago
Given an array of daily stock returns and at most k deletions, determine the maximum number of contiguous days with the same return value after omitting up to k days.
7 months ago
Design the front page of a newspaper app.
4 years ago1 answer
Have you ever failed to meet your commitments?
2 years ago
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What is DNS?
3 months ago1 answer
Find the palindromes.
2 years ago2 answers
Implement regular expression matching for a string and pattern, where . matches any single character and * matches zero or more of the preceding element.
7 months ago
Top k frequent elements
+12 years ago1 answer
Tell me about a time when you had to ask more questions or dig deeper to get to the bottom of something.
9 months ago
Implement a function to find the minimum number of dice rolls needed to reach the end in a Snakes and Ladders game.
a year ago
Find the k-th smallest and k-th largest element in a binary search tree (BST).
2 years ago1 answer
Tell me about a time you had an unpopular idea.
2 years ago
Given an array, print the Next Greater Element (NGE) for each element. The NGE for an element x is the first greater element on the right side of x in the array, or -1 if none exists.
4 years ago3 answers
Tell me about a time where you needed to make a decision with many options and very little time.
2 years ago
How would you create a carousel using vanilla JavaScript?
4 years ago1 answer
Find points closest to the origin.
4 years ago1 answer
Given a string of digits from 2 to 9 and the classic phone keypad mapping, return all possible letter combinations the number could represent.
7 months ago
Given an array of children’s ratings, assign at least one candy to each child so that higher-rated children get more than their neighbors, and return the minimum total candies needed.
a year ago
Find the K'th smallest element in an array.
5 months ago1 answer

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Amazon Software Engineer Interview Questions

Give me an example of a time when you had to work outside your comfort zone. How did you gain expertise in that area?

Given a log file with [timestamp, customer_id, webpage], determine the top 3 most frequently visited sequences of 3 webpages across all customers.

Given an array of daily stock returns and at most k deletions, determine the maximum number of contiguous days with the same return value after omitting up to k days.

Design the front page of a newspaper app.

Have you ever failed to meet your commitments?

What is DNS?

Find the palindromes.

Implement regular expression matching for a string and pattern, where . matches any single character and * matches zero or more of the preceding element.

Top k frequent elements

Tell me about a time when you had to ask more questions or dig deeper to get to the bottom of something.

Implement a function to find the minimum number of dice rolls needed to reach the end in a Snakes and Ladders game.

Find the k-th smallest and k-th largest element in a binary search tree (BST).

Tell me about a time you had an unpopular idea.

Given an array, print the Next Greater Element (NGE) for each element. The NGE for an element x is the first greater element on the right side of x in the array, or -1 if none exists.

Tell me about a time where you needed to make a decision with many options and very little time.

How would you create a carousel using vanilla JavaScript?

Find points closest to the origin.

Given a string of digits from 2 to 9 and the classic phone keypad mapping, return all possible letter combinations the number could represent.

Given an array of children’s ratings, assign at least one candy to each child so that higher-rated children get more than their neighbors, and return the minimum total candies needed.

Find the K'th smallest element in an array.

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