Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions

These are the questions asked : 1. Why did you apply at Amazon? why you want to work for Amazon? 2. What is that do you like about Amazon? 3. what you don't like? 4. If we have 2 files and we have lot of customer ids, file 1 have customer id of day 1 and file 2 would have customer ids of day2, how can we find customers who view the both the files? what 's the complexity of it? 5. Reverse a String 6.We have a Directory, where we have lot of HTMl files, how can we find email address on files and their line numbers they are in? (Grep or find command). 7. You have web application, which runs on a server and your boss comes and up say it's very slow, what do you do? 8. .At the End he told me to write code and email it to him on checkNotation: That is if Input is 1 output should be One If Input is 161 output should be One hundred sixty one

I met with a very intelligent gentleman at CodeMash and I was asked if I would like to interview on the spot. I took them up on the interview, spur of the moment. I found the skills questions to be vague, and the more you tried to formulate an answer the more requirements they would place in your way. I found it to be a great exercise and was happy for the experience. Not only did it shine a spotlight on my inability to think in code on paper, but I also learned some things too. The interviewers were extremely polite and understanding if I was not familiar with a concept, they would attempt to educate you so that you can still formulate and answer to their question and/or problem.