Amazon interview notes, page 93 of 159

“The base case felt fine, standard backtracking, swap and recurse.” 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 knew the prefix/suffix product trick so the base case wasn't the problem.” 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.

“I went straight into a conflict story without setting up why the disagreement mattered, and I could tell the interviewer wanted more stakes.” 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 knew word break immediately, done it before.” 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 brute force down fine, felt decent about it.” 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 anchor question for the whole interview.” 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.

“The game framing slowed me down more than the actual problem did.” 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.

“Classic 'show me you care about impact' question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Aced both with full test case scores, so no complaints there.” 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.

“Straightforward if you know it: negative log of p.” 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.