Amazon interview notes, page 133 of 159

“I've seen this question floated around so many times that I thought I was prepared.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to write the naive two-pass solution where you compute height separately for each node, which is obviously O(n^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.

“I had a decent story but I think I undersold the 'why me' part.” 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.

“The examples made it feel approachable at first.” 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.

“I went straight for a min-heap keyed on expiry timestamps, which felt right, but then stumbled when they pushed on what next() actually does when it pops an expired entry mid-sample.” 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.

“Classic Amazon leadership question and I still fumbled the follow-up.” 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.

“I spent way too long on the market context and not enough on actual strategic bets.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Amazon, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Sort by start time first, then walk through and merge whenever the next interval's start falls at or before the current end.” 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 question has so many layers that I spent probably too long on pretraining and ran out of steam by the time I got to inference.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The duplicate case is where people mess up.” 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.