Amazon interview notes, page 126 of 159

“I kind of rambled through this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Amazon, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first few minutes just restating the operation to myself because I kept misreading it as a swap.” 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 the obvious set-based approach: group by user_id, collect distinct dates, filter where count >= 2.” 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.

“Covered the three main types: stored, reflected, and DOM-based.” 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.

“The problem looks deceptively clean until you realize the '!' replacements interact with each other and you can't just greedily assign them left to right without thinking about what's already been placed.” 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.

“This is the part that's keeping me up.” 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.

“Classic topological sort / cycle detection problem.” 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 is the kind of question where you think you have a good story and then halfway through you realize it's not actually that impressive.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“The follow-up questions are where this one gets uncomfortable.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“The part that trips people up is the root cause piece.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.