Amazon interview notes, page 26 of 159

“Had a real story ready for this one.” 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 knew the general idea, effect size, significance level, power, but when I tried to walk through it out loud I got tangled up in the direction of the relationship between sample size and power.” 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.

“I shared a project story and thought I was done, but then they asked exactly what my contribution was, and then how I figured out priorities when there wasn't enough time or people to do everything.” 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.

“I went in thinking this was a standard stakeholder question and kind of treated all three audiences similarly at first, which was the wrong move.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Amazon, Onsite - Cross-functional / Panel round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was just to build a giant array repeating each index by its weight and sample from it.” 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 decent story ready but I rambled too much on the setup and ran out of time before I could land the actual impact numbers, which is obviously the part they care about most.” 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.

“I started with segmentation, which was fine, but I fumbled when they pushed on the metric hierarchy piece.” 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.

“I started with the data model, which felt safe, then moved into the API surface.” 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.

“Scope creep killed me here.” 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 warehouse angle threw me a bit.” 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.