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I got an email from Amazon on Friday night that I completed the first assessment and they will set up one phone interview. They asked me about the best times for me and phone number to call on. Today I still have not received any email message yet with the confirmation of when the interview is.

Any thoughts ? How long did it take them to confirm the times for the phone interview with you?

I have a major problem, where I cannot perform anywhere close to my actual ability when I am asked to code something non-trivial during a phone or in-person interview.

At work, I *hate it* when someone is watching me as I code. I hate the idea of someone observing my thought process, and watching my mistakes. It is anxiety provoking, and I either start screwing up or make them go away. And this is typically with some random guy, who is probably bored and doesn't care, with code that is probably trivial, and in sum the interaction is completely meaningless.

During an interview, the problem is 100x worse. Here, it is almost always a non-trivial problem, with someone who is very much so evaluating what I do, and how long it takes me to do it, in an interaction which may have a significant effect on the course of my life. It is excruciating, and I will often go silent, with my head horrifyingly blank, and the interviewer will have to help me limp someplace vaguely close to the finish line.

It is maddening, that I would usually have no problem completing these problems on my own. And having to perform under that kind of pressure is so completely divorced from the actual reality of being a software engineer.

Can anyone else relate to this? Is there any hope for me, or am I simply excluded from companies with these kind of interviews.

8 people want to cross a river via boat only. They are mother , father, policeman, criminal, 2 daughters, 2 sons.
The boat can be driven by Police, mother or father only.
The boat carries only 2 people at a time.
The criminal if left without police can hurt someone but wont run away if he is alone.
The daughters left without mother would be hurt by the father.
The sons left without Father would be hurt by the mother.
If one a riverside mother is absent and father arrives by boat, he can still hurt the daughters and vice versa.

Find a way to take them all to the other side safely, without hurting anyone.

I believe I've found a mistake in one of the solutions, does anybody know where I can report the problem?

How it is possible to use HashMap or HashTable to find out first non repeated character since both HashMap and HashTable does not guarantee that the order of the map will remain constant over time?

Hi I got interview call from Oracle for Java developer. Can any one help me about java questions asked by oracle previously.

Hi I got interview call from Oracle for Java developer. Can any one help me about java questions asked by oracle previously.

I got one of those e-mails from the Google Blueprint Team asking me to take an online assessment.

I'm super nervous because the test is timed. Can someone give me some advice on not screwing it up by having a panic attack?

What I really need is a practice test. It's not important that the questions be super relevant or anything, I just need to go through the motions of taking the test before I actually take it so that my nerves don't get the best of me.

I'd also like to know if anyone knows if getting this e-mail means that I passed the initial screening. Does this mean that my resume was selected for this next step? Or is this an automated e-mail that everyone receives. If it does mean that my resume cleared the initial screening, was I likely screened by a human? Or do they simply have a script scanning for specific words. Similarly, will my code assessment be reviewed by a human? Or by a script?

During my college I studied C/C++, C#.Net and ASP.Net. Now one my friend suggested me to learn Python & MATLAB also. He wasn't much specific why. I've also seen lots of good resume, mostly they have Python (Scripting Language), MATLAB, plus above languages that I've studied. I've to appear for interviews in 3 months, So please guide me what should I do.

Which are the government departments and ministries requiring candidates qualified in labour law?

So I graduated with a pretty terrible gpa (way closer to a 2.00 than a 3.00 and let's just leave it at that :[). I struggled early on and truthfully I came with pretty much zero relevant skills out of highschool. Most of my math is self taught, still I got the BS instead of the BA in CS. Did Calc1&2, Calc based physics 1&2. I can do the stuff, but I got Cs and Bs rather than As. And of course, some Ds and Fs sprinkled in.

Usually I try and spin it to something positive about overcoming struggle and having to be self taught with a lot of prior requirements for my courses, but I'm worried that this comes off as too defensive.

How would you handle it? I feel like the question comes up and my entire tone changes. I'd like to be able to portray how it means nothing to me and that I'm very confident in my skills, but I don't think it's coming off that way.

My in major GPA wasn't much better, but I finished strong. Even took some grad level courses and got As. I mention that, usually.

For the record, I did spend a lot of time post-graduation brushing up on some weak areas. I think I'm pretty well rounded right now. I tend to interview really well, so to me it really is a matter of making them see that it is no big deal.

Hi All,

I am planning to join a product company after working many years in service company. Earlier I have prepared for Microsoft, Amazon, Expedia but that was like 3-4 years before.
My question is do these companies hire people at 6-7 years of experience level. Also what is their expectation from a candidate at this experience level. And what annual package am I looking at if I get a job offer at MS/Amazon/Expedia.

Regards,
Ashish

IEEE float to IBM float value conversion

Hi everyone, the solution for this on page 172 explains how to use a boolean array for this, with the assumption that we are dealing with ASCII characters. Why is the size of the array 256 when the set of ASCII values ranges only from 0 -127 ? Thanks for any help!

I'm reading Cracking the Coding Interveiw 5Ed and it talks about "interview preparation grid" but never defines it. It is mentioned on the interview preparation "map", and a behavioral preparation grid example is given (but not defined) later on. So we have a grid within a map but what is that grid (page 8 it is mentioned)?. The web talks about I think technical preparation grid which is even a further concept not mentioned. Where are these things defined. Thanks.

I've had a screening interview and a technical interview at Facebook. The screening interview went great, the technical interview not as well. I've yet to hear back from Facebook and probably won't for another week, but in the meantime I'm trying to figure out how badly I did.

I was asked one question, not a simple "reverse a linked list" question, but not "implement this esoteric algorithm." It was my first technical interview. The short story: I spent the whole time on one problem, which isn't terrible in and of itself, and missed a much easier solution. I think I showed solid thought process and understanding in other ways though.

Long story: In normal interviews, you don't want to leave any silence. For some reason, this being my first technical interview, I had the same instinct. I kept talking so much about my thought process that instead of thinking critically about it, my brain just went into auto-pilot. I think I was pretty clearly nervous.

I'm a college Freshmen, but I have a pretty impressive resume. I've been programming all sorts of projects since middle school. I genuinely believe that I am qualified for the internship program. I've done an enormousness amount of program (much more than some college comp. sci seniors). The Facebook recruiter was really enthusiastic about my resume.

So, be honest, how screwed am I? What are my chances of getting a second technical interview? (I think I'd do much better)

Which among the following statements are correct about delegates?

1. Functions called using delegates are always late bound.
2. Delegates are type safe
3. Delegates are wrappers for function pointers
4. The declaration of the delegate must match the signature of the method it points to
5. Without inheritance delegates cannot be used.

I'm going to have my second phone interview with Amazon next week, and I was informed that the interviewer has been changed from one of the developers to the hiring manager. Has anyone had a similar experience? Is the interview going to be any different from any others at all?

I have a 30 minute Amazon online assessment test this week for summer internship..anybody who has gone through the same process?What can I expect?

I have a 30 minute Amazon online assessment test this week for summer internship..anybody who has gone through the same process?What can I expect?