Amazon interview notes, page 83 of 159

“I knew a min-heap of size k was the right move but I fumbled explaining why you'd keep the smallest of the top-k values at the root.” 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, Online Assessment (OA) 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 the 'what would you do differently' part is where I fumbled.” 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 manual search and grid search, which felt fine, but I stumbled when they pushed on why random search often beats grid search empirically.” 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.

“The problem is dressed up as a video processing feature but it's really just a string partitioning problem.” 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 started with BFS which felt right, but I kept second-guessing the direction of the edges.” 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 the naive approach out fast, count frequencies then sort by count, easy enough.” 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 had a story ready but rambled too much on the background and ran out of time to explain what I actually did.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program 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.

“My first instinct was Dijkstra but I second-guessed myself because the bus edges are zero-cost and I wasn't sure if that broke anything.” 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.

“Looked easy and kind of is, but I spent a minute overthinking whether to use a set or a map.” 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.