Amazon interview notes, page 49 of 159

“My first instinct was to just simulate it, and that works fine for small inputs, but I had a feeling they wanted something better.” 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 Wald formula cold but fumbled the explanation of why it breaks down near the boundaries.” 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.

“Started fine with the hashmap plus doubly linked list approach, moved the accessed node to the front on both get and put, returned -1 for missing keys.” 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 question is sneaky because it's actually four questions stitched together and if you don't pace yourself you'll spend six minutes on the setup and have nothing left for the measurement part.” 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 rambled a bit here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“My first instinct was a simple recursive split and I got the basic case working fast.” 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.

“BFS was the obvious move and I got there, but I wasted probably 10 minutes fumbling with parsing the input string into an actual tree.” 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.

“This is the kind of question where I talk too much upfront and then run out of time on the security group specifics.” 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.

“I went with preorder traversal and null markers, which felt safe.” 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.

“Spent the first minute rambling about model accuracy before realizing they clearly wanted infra details.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.