Amazon interview notes, page 141 of 159

“I started coding too fast and had to backtrack when they asked what I'd do with malformed lines.” 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.

“The classic random pointer version I'd seen before, so my first instinct was to reach for a hashmap mapping old nodes to new ones.” 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 tricky part is that cohort assignment uses the earliest activity_ts, not signup_date.” 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.

“This sounds like a networking 101 question until you realize they want the security angle specifically.” 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.

“Basically Kahn's algorithm with a small twist: you also need to reconstruct the order, not just detect cycles.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just GROUP BY title and COUNT, which is completely wrong.” 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 one tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 was pretty vocal throughout, kept checking in with the interviewer to make sure I was going in the right direction.” 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.

“The core of the whole round.” 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 ready but fumbled the part about why I was the one who caught it first.” 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.