Amazon interview notes, page 80 of 159

“I went straight to the software layer and kind of glossed over the actual hardware constraints, which I think hurt me.” 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 movement constraint is what gets you.” 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 started with the profiling angle which felt right, row counts, column types, null rates, that kind of thing.” 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 went straight to metrics and kind of skipped the part where you define what 'growth' even means for the feature in question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with the filtered version which was fine, just a join plus COUNT(DISTINCT user_id) with a WHERE on department and event_time.” 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 surface area and I kind of froze for a second trying to figure out where to even start.” 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 rattled off multicollinearity and heteroscedasticity and then kind of stalled.” 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.

“Got full marks here which felt good, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't surprised.” 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.

“You'd think this is easy until you're staring at a blank editor.” 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 was the opener and I thought I had it, but I kept framing it like a normal replication setup and the interviewer kept pushing.” 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.