Amazon interview notes, page 146 of 159

“I fumbled this a bit because I defaulted to a story where I actually did have some data, just not a lot.” 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.

“I structured it as situation-action-result and it mostly held together, but the part I fumbled was the obstacles section.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“This was a beast of a question.” 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.

“Passed 3 out of 15 test cases.” 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 treat it as a topological sort problem, which is basically right, but I fumbled explaining why for a bit.” 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 wearable constraint is where I spent most of my energy and probably where I went wrong.” 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.

“I knew the static version of this problem pretty well, but the streaming interface tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 to just count 1s per row linearly, which works but is obviously not what they're looking for.” 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 started with the O(n^2) pairwise check which was fine, they nodded along.” 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 in thinking I had a solid story but mid-answer I realized it sounded more like I steamrolled the person than actually influenced them.” 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.