Amazon interview notes, page 152 of 159

“Classic orphaned-record problem.” 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 took longer than I expected.” 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 started with self-attention because I knew it well, explained the query-key-value thing, then talked about multi-head attention letting the model attend to multiple representation subspaces at once.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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 a little because my first instinct was to pick a story where I looked good at the end.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just use a random number and check if it was already drawn, which the interviewer let me finish before pointing out that gets slow as the deck empties.” 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 went smoothly.” 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.

“This one is deceptively layered.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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 started with data parallelism because it's the easiest to explain and bought myself time to think.” 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 setup sounds like a greedy problem and it basically is, but I kept second-guessing myself on the i==j case and whether that changes the counting.” 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 sprawled fast.” 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.