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A Topological Sort the Interviewer Drew on the Spot

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Intern · Onsite · Jan 2026

Round 1's interview and timeline are covered in a separate link, so I won't repeat that here. The interviewer described the question verbally: Amazon has a ton of services, and there are dependencies between them. When we take some of those services offline, figure out which other services end up affected. Clarifying questions: always, always do this first — get the conditions of the problem comp…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jan 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.