Amazon Interview Questions

Jatin S. - "A project charter is a formal document that authorizes a project and outlines its objectives, scope, stakeholders, and key details. It serves as an agreement among stakeholders and provides a clear foundation for the project by defining what needs to be done and why. Typically, the project sponsor issues the project charter to the project manager or team, formally initiating the project. A project charter typically includes the following key elements to ensure a comprehensive and clear unde"See full answer

Alemayehu m G. - "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."See full answer

Rishabh L. - "Pizza Ordering System orderdetail - orderdetailid (PK), orderid (FK), itemid (FK), itemqty, itemized_price order - orderid (PK), customerid (FK), orderdate, locationid (FK), ordertype (DINEIN, PICKUP, DELIVERY), refid (dineinid, pickupid, deliveryid), subtotal, tax, tip, totalamount, payment_method (CASH, CARD) location - locationid (PK), locationdesc, city, state, startdate, enddate customer - customer_id (PK), name, address (nullable), phone (nullable), dob (d"See full answer

Anonymous Unicorn - "Count items between indices within compartments compartments are delineated by by: '|' items are identified by: '*' input_inventory = "*||||" inputstartidxs = [1, 4, 6] inputendidxs = [9, 5, 8] expected_output = [3, 0, 1] Explanation: "*||||" 0123456789... indices ++ + # within compartments ^ start_idx = 1 ^ end_idx = 9 -- - # within idxs but not within compartments "*||||" 0123456789... indices "See full answer

Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer

Kirit K. - "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"See full answer

Anuradha T. - " I will attempt to answer this. Barnes and Nobles Nook, although Amazon had an advantage in terms of being early to market (2007) with the Kindle, B&N Nook could have been marketed Nook more creatively, given that B&N has access to massive inventories of books in digital format. It fell short of: Focusing on the differentiation in marketing Being aggressive in marketing tactics by promoting the Nook at events, webinars, out-of-store marketing Attracting the user base by highlighting the m"See full answer

Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

Smriti G. - "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"See full answer

Sourabh G. - "Functional Requirement Monitor health, metrics Alert in case of failure/anomaly Visualize the live health Analyse machines on periodic basis Non Functional Should not exert load on machines low latency Highly scalable Logs/Metrics Gathering push - machine gather and send to system and low priority background thread along with batching pull - heart beat check (for offline machines) Processing Real time streaming using Kafka/kinesis + Flink TimeSeries database for stor"See full answer

An D. - "Understanding the Basics Choosing Learning Resources Practicing and Applying Knowledge Seeking Help and Staying Updated Leveraging Modern Tools"See full answer

Rolemberg J. - "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"See full answer

Jasmine Y. - "It depends on the size of the dataset. You want enough samples in both the testing, training and evaluation sets. If there is enough data, 70/20/10 is a good split"See full answer

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had to collect data points by deploying a minimum viable product due to unclear business requirements/dynamic nature of business. Emphasized on exact data points and how they strategically used to iteratively deploy improved version of product."See full answer

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