Amazon interview notes, page 91 of 159

“My first instinct was to just simulate it, which works but obviously blows up on time complexity for large inputs.” 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 one took me a minute to fully parse.” 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.

“Took me a while to see that this reduces to summing up the drops between adjacent elements after accounting for whatever increases you've already applied going left to right.” 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.

“This one has a lot of moving parts and I think I underestimated how much they wanted the 'get buy-in' piece.” 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 jumped straight to 'just sort the whole thing after appending' and the interviewer kind of nodded slowly in that way that tells you they're waiting for more.” 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 answered it fine on the surface but stumbled when they pushed on why you'd need a separate validation set at all versus just using the test set for both.” 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.

“My first instinct was greedy: grab all the price-1 machines sorted by power descending, then fill in with price-2 if still short.” 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.

“The setup took me a minute to parse.” 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 by trying to anchor on the user and their context, like who actually rents a kayak and what makes the experience frustrating.” 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.

“This felt manageable at first but the multi-part structure tripped me up.” 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.