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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      23 July 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      I was contacted by the recruiter. The first round was a 20 minute non- technical phone call with the recruiter (discussed about my background and future steps). Then, an online assessment was sent. The OA consisted of 2 questions to be solved in 90 minutes.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You are in charge of preparing a recently purchased lot for Amazon’s building. The lot is covered with trenches and has a single obstacle that needs to be taken down before the foundation is prepared for the building. The demolition robot must remove the obstacle before the progress can be made on the building. Write an algorithm to determine the minimum distance required for the demolition robot to remove the obstacle. Assumptions: • The lot is flat, except the trenches and can be represented by a 2D grid. • The demolition robot must start at the top left corner of the lot, which is always flat, and can move on block up, down, right, left • The demolition robot cannot enter trenches and cannot leave the lot. • The flat areas are indicated by 1, areas with trenches are indicated by 0, and the obstacle is indicated by 9 Input: The input of the function has 3 arguments: numRows – number of rows numColumns – number of columns lot – 2d grid of integers Output: Return an integer that indicated the minimum distance traversed to remove the obstacle else return -1 Constraints: 1<= numRows, numColumns <= 1000 Example: numRows = 3, numColumns = 3 lot = [ [1, 0, 0], [1, 0, 0], [1, 9, 1]] Output: 3 Explanation: Starting from the top-left corner, the demolition robot traversed the cells (0,0) -> (1,0)-> (2,0)->(2,1) The robot moves 3 times to remove the obstacle “9”
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