Amazon interview notes, page 21 of 159

“My first instinct was to split on dots and call it a day, which obviously breaks the moment you hit a bracket.” 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 plain BFS and I actually started coding it before remembering the conversion mechanic.” 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 blanked for a second and just started rattling off assumptions out loud.” 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.

“The problem wraps a modular arithmetic condition in a security tool story, which is fine but kind of distracting.” 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.

“BFS is the obvious move here and I went straight to it, which was fine.” 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 hit hard.” 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.

“Started with brute force out loud which, in retrospect, probably wasn't the move.” 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 had a story ready but it felt a bit thin on the 'what I actually did to learn' part.” 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.

“Sort by start time and check adjacent pairs.” 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 fumbled the opening a bit, started listing metrics before actually defining what 'inefficiency' means in context.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.