Amazon·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture
- How would you design a personalized newsfeed system?
“This one sprawls fast if you don't pin down scope early.”
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1581 interview notes · updated Oct 2026
“This one sprawls fast if you don't pin down scope early.”
“I jumped straight into features and immediately regretted it.”
“Broad question and I kind of froze for a second because there are a million directions you could go.”
“This was the whole interview basically.”
“This one stung a little because I had a real example but I second-guessed whether to use it.”
“The flip rule tripped me up for a while.”
“I had a decent story ready but I think I jumped to the resolution too fast.”
“Took me a while to get past the cloud server flavor text and see what the actual problem was.”
“Spent way too long trying to simulate this before realizing it's a binary search on the answer.”
“This is LC 601 in disguise.”