Amazon interview notes, page 60 of 159

“The follow-ups are where this gets hard.” 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 had a decent story for this but I spent too long on the setup and kind of rushed the outcome.” 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.

“The code itself is basically five lines once you see it: just sum up the drops between consecutive elements where a[i-1] > a[i].” 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 is a meaty one and I didn't structure my answer well.” 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.

“This one pushed me further into the technical weeds than I expected for a PM role.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“The follow-up is where it gets real.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 high-level categories (sparse/sliding-window, low-rank/kernelized, recurrent/state-space stuff) but fumbled when they pushed me on actual numbers.” 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 knew binary search was involved pretty quickly, the tricky part was nailing down the bounds.” 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 sort the packages descending and greedily assign them to the highest-capacity truck available.” 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 one messed me up more than I expected.” 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.