Amazon interview notes, page 33 of 159

“The priority part is what gets you.” 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 'weakness factor' meant in this context.” 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.

“Classic two-sum, you'd think it's autopilot but the edge cases tripped me up a bit.” 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.

“Took me a minute to even figure out where to start.” 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 population and tried to work down from households to eating-out frequency.” 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.

“I knew prefix sums going in but the 'maximize without exceeding' part tripped me up more than I expected.” 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just trying to scope it out, which I think was the right call, but I probably over-indexed on the producer side and barely touched consumer group semantics until they nudged 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.

“Binary search on sorted arrays is something I practice, but the twist here is noticing that before the single element, pairs start at even indices, and after it they shift to odd.” 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 went straight for DENSE_RANK which felt right since ties shouldn't eat up a rank slot.” 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 got the BFS part down pretty fast, queue with a visited set, standard stuff.” 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.