Amazon interview notes, page 52 of 159

“Went with DFS and the logic was solid, but their platform doesn't compile so I had no way to catch dumb stuff like typing the grid as int instead of char.” 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 started okay, talked about how you can't survey an entire population so you work with samples, and the sampling distribution tells you how your estimate behaves across repeated samples.” 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 the API surface which felt natural: new_game, reveal, flag, state.” 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.

“This one kept growing.” 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.

“Picked a project I thought sounded impressive but probably should've gone with something where I had a cleaner story about my specific role.” 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 started with the textbook decomposition and I think that was fine, but I fumbled a bit when they pushed on the practical side.” 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.

“I went straight for groupby on the timestamp column then summed kwh_consumed, which was fine.” 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 had a decent story ready but I kept second-guessing whether it was 'difficult enough.' Ended up rambling a bit before getting to the actual decision.” The rest of the author's notes on Business Analyst 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.

“Took me a while to realize this reduces to looking at the difference array.” 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 stared at the example for a while because the output of 3 for 'hackerrank' wasn't clicking at first.” 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.