Amazon interview notes, page 41 of 159

“I started with upload rate per minute, which felt right, then tried to back into total volume by estimating how long YouTube has existed and how upload rates have grown over time.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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 question is deceptively heavy.” 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.

“BFS or DFS from the start, only expanding to neighbors with strictly lower height.” 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.

“This was basically three questions stapled together and I didn't realize it until I was already two minutes into explaining MSE vs cross-entropy.” 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 because every example I had in my head either wasn't that complex or the solution wasn't really that simple.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just re-reading the problem because I wasn't sure if units could stack or if each city just needed one.” 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 blanked for a second because it sounds easy but then you realize you need an actual concrete example, not just 'I learned to communicate better.' I ended up talking about picking up some basic SQL to pull my own data instead of waiting on analysts, which felt relevant.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“Classic estimation question and I still fumbled the setup.” 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.

“This felt like four questions stitched together and I kind of answered them out of order.” 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.

“This is the whole interview, basically.” 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.