Amazon AWS Onsite Interview Experience
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I prepped around 15 stories to use for the LPs questions but I had to come up with some stories on the spot depending on the question. These are just some of the LP questions that I remember they asked me, but make sure to take the LPs prep seriously. The interviewers dived deep into what you did and asked bunch of follow ups.

Round 1:

  • LP:

    • Tell about a time where you pursue unpopular opinion and how do you communicate with your opposing opinion
    • Tell about a time where you disagree with coworker/manager, how did you handle it?
  • System Design:

    • Design a voting system for American Got Talent
      • 6 contestants
      • Voting window for 24 hrs
      • Display a running vote total during the voting window (real time leaderboard)

Round 2:

Round 3:

Round 4 (Bar Raiser I think):

  • LPs:

    • Tell me about an unanticipated obstacle that you encounter while trying to achieve a key goal. How did you handle it?
  • Coding Round:

    • (I did poorly on the coding round mostly because I did not really understand what the question is asking, I did not get to write the code, mostly just talking through it with the interviewer)

"""
I want to start a broadcasting company. I will provide a schedule with channels and shows, this will include things such as program name, 
start time, end time, and quality (SD/HD/4K.etc). What I'm wanting from you is to create a way that based on this schedule I can understand 
What my peak bandwidth requirement is to broadcast my proposed schedule. 

Constraint:
- I will only be able to purchase bandwidth once a year, so I will need 
plan my schedule and get a peak requirement for the entire schedule presented. This will contain multiple channels and ontent changes in 
quality throughout the year.

Required Outputs:
1. Maximum total bandwidth over the schedule
2. Stretch, average consumption based on schedule.

Quality Type         Bandwidth
Standard Def (SD) -> 1 (1500bit)
High Def (HD) -> 5 (6000bit)
Ultra High Def (4K) - > 12 (21000bit)


Example TV Guide:
Channel 1 = 12p - 4p -> SD, 4p - 5p -> HD, 6p - 9p -> 4K
Channel 2 = 10a - 1p -> HD, 1:30p - 5p -> SD, 8p - 12p - 4K

10a - 12p (1 HD) = 5
12p - 1p (1 HD, 1 SD) = 6
1p - 1:30p (1 SD) = 1

"""
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