Amazon interview notes, page 89 of 159

“I had a story prepped for this but it was a bit too reactive, like I stumbled into the opportunity rather than actively hunting for it.” 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.

“I had a decent story ready but the prioritization piece tripped me up a bit.” 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 question is deceptively wide.” 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 kept overthinking this.” 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 reach for a big array indexed by key and just store values directly, which technically works given the key range is bounded up to a million.” 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 had a decent story for this but I rambled too much on the setup and ran out of time before I got to the actual outcome.” 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.

“The problem description was a wall of text and the example image they referenced was blurry so I genuinely wasn't sure what the corrupted character was supposed to be.” 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 went with a queue to track the recent N songs and a set for O(1) lookup, then just kept resampling until I got a valid pick.” 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.

“Pretty standard window function problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Analyst 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 tripped me up a bit because my first instinct was to go full project plan mode, timelines and dependencies and whatnot.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager 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.