Amazon interview notes, page 15 of 159

“I rambled a bit at the start trying to pick the right example, which probably cost me.” 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.

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 went straight to coding and regretted it.” The rest of the author's notes on Research 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.

“Took me a minute to see past the product recommendation wrapper and realize this is just a sliding window frequency count problem.” 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 pub/sub layer and worked outward, which felt right in the moment but I probably should've clarified the scale assumptions first.” 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 example they gave was [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5] with answer 5.” 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.

“Sort first, then walk through comparing each interval's start against the previous 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.

“I went straight into the data model and storage layer, which felt safe, but about 15 minutes in they nudged me toward the actual pricing engine.” 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.

“Wasn't expecting a pure OOD question in a Bar Raiser for an ML role.” 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 per-user structure is what saves you here.” 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.