Amazon interview notes, page 20 of 159

“Seems easy until you remember negative numbers exist.” 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.

“Took me a while to even parse what a 'conflict' meant here.” 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 went straight to a min-heap over k entries and felt pretty good about it.” 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 was the whole interview, basically.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 went straight to infinite scroll because it felt modern and I thought that's what they wanted to hear.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend 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 hurt a little.” 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 basic idea clicked pretty fast, scan for peaks and expand left and right.” 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 parametric approach clicked for me pretty quickly, set up the 2x2 system, compute the cross product determinant, check t1 and t2 are both in [0,1].” 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 brute force writes itself in like two minutes, which is exactly why it's a trap you can't fall into.” 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 by start time, then just check if any meeting starts before the previous one ends.” 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.