Amazon interview notes, page 138 of 159

“This one ran the full hour.” 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.

“Started with brute force, check every subarray and verify if sorting it fixes the whole thing.” 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 part that got me was the adjacency list direction.” 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just listing features which was probably the wrong move.” 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.

“The runtime and memory constraints are what really got me.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Amazon, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was just a hashmap for counts and then iterate everything on each query, which they let me code but then asked about the cost.” 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 knew the broad strokes but fumbled the blob vs object distinction because they're genuinely close.” 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.

“I knew the formula cold but fumbled the intuition behind the scaling.” 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.

“My first instinct was pure greedy: always pick the window with the fewest 1s so the cost per removal is minimized.” 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.

“The median approach clicked pretty fast for me.” 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.