Amazon interview notes, page 96 of 159

“The revenue formula tripped me up at first.” 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 greedy instinct here is to just grab the best bundle repeatedly, and that will absolutely fail on certain 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.

“The key move is computing the remaining time per task and sorting ascending, then greedily finishing the cheapest tasks first until the budget runs out.” 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 always try to restate the problem back before touching any code.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the obvious stuff: a Topic class, a Subscriber interface, a Publisher.” 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.

“Took me a while to even understand what 'credit' meant here because the problem statement is pretty dense.” 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.

“The core of this is not complicated if you've read the transformer paper, but doing it live under pressure with no framework to lean on is a different story.” 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.

“Classic problem and I knew it, but I still fumbled around for a minute deciding between BFS and DFS before just going with DFS because it felt cleaner to write recursively.” 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 fumbled the intro a bit because I started talking about backprop before they even asked about training.” 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 decent story but fumbled the 'how did you validate delight' part.” 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.