Amazon interview notes, page 55 of 159

“Took me a while to even parse what the operation was doing.” 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.

“Took me longer than I'd like to admit to stop thinking about this as a graph problem.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just alternate characters evenly and call it a day.” 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 jumped straight to chart type and forgot to say anything about the axes for an embarrassingly long time.” 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 the DP table without talking through examples first, which I think annoyed the interviewer a bit.” 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 has a lot of parts and I kind of forgot about the 'how did it affect you personally' piece until the interviewer nudged me.” 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 kind of question where you think you have a good story until you're halfway through telling it and realize the trade-offs part is actually the whole point.” 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 knew the textbook definition but stumbled when they pushed on when it fails.” 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.

“Kadane's algorithm is the move here and I knew it, but I second-guessed myself for a solid two minutes staring at the negative numbers.” 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.

“You really have to connect three things here: the leadership principles, whatever the team is actually working on, and something real from your own background.” 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.