Amazon interview notes, page 120 of 159

“The key insight I kept second-guessing myself on was whether sorting first was actually valid.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Straightforward groupby, but the OR condition is where people trip up.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The interviewer told me I should've led with more business framing before jumping into the technical side of my projects.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to the linear scan from the end, which works fine but is O(n) and I kind of knew they'd push back.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you think you have a good story until you're halfway through telling it and realize it sounds like you just complained and then gave up.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Amazon, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Couldn't get the implementation out.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one went okay.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me embarrassingly long to realize this screams binary search on the answer.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with DFS because that felt natural, tracking nodes in three states: unvisited, currently in the recursion stack, and fully processed.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This wrecked me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.