Amazon interview notes, page 44 of 159

“I jumped straight into the video streaming pipeline and spent way too long on CDN and encoding before they nudged me toward user-facing features and scale requirements.” 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.

“Classic Amazon behavioral question and I still fumbled the landing a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program 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.

“Sorting and greedily picking from smallest works cleanly when everything is non-negative, but I stumbled when the interviewer brought up negatives.” 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.

“The recursion part was fine, that's just os.walk or equivalent.” 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.

“The shuffle part felt straightforward, Fisher-Yates came to mind pretty fast.” 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.

“The single-pass constraint is what tripped me up.” 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 started with the mechanics fine, splitting data into k chunks, training on k-1, evaluating on the holdout, rotating through.” 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 one took me a while to even parse.” 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.

“Pretty foundational stuff.” 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 jumped straight to sorting and counting, which works but I could tell they wanted me to talk through a hash map approach first.” 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.