Amazon interview notes, page 40 of 159

“Pretty standard for a recruiting role but I still stumbled a bit trying to sound structured without being too rigid.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Recruiter / HR 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 to simulate it round by round and count substrings each time, which obviously blows up for large inputs.” 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.

“This one sprawled fast.” 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 core join isn't bad but the unordered pair thing tripped me up for a minute.” 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 is the kind of question where you think you know it and then your hands just stop.” The rest of the author's notes on Research 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 knew the sorting logic pretty quickly, frequency map then sort, but the tie-breaking part tripped me up for a minute.” 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.

“Classic Amazon leadership principles bait.” 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.

“My first instinct was pure recursion and I coded it up fine for small inputs, but I hadn't thought about the overlapping subproblems until I was almost done.” 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 rambled a bit on this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager 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.

“Greedy felt obvious to me once I read it twice.” 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.