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Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by uw_rob on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:12PM (#13076621)
I think Googling the question exactly and copy and pasting the answer would qualify as cheating.

(Disclaimer: I completed an internship at Amazon and accepted a second internship)

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Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by jfoutz on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:16PM (#13077130)
I dunno man. I'd much rather see a well understood vetted email validation(or whatever )copied from stack overflow than some thrown together hack in production code.
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Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by nommm-nommm on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:18AM (#13079856)
being able to look things up is a different skill than being able to understand and properly apply what you looked up. Or being able to understand what you are looking up and why.
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Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:23PM (#13076961)
That's very easily caught by googling candidates' answers.
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