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Online Assessment Coding Question on Maximizing a Bitwise AND

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Sep 2026

Fresh out of the oven. I found the coding question really confusing. I spent a long time thinking and guessing, and I guessed bitwise AND, which turned out to be wrong. Afterwards I went back over it with Claude, and the approach it gave me was greedy + bit manipulation. Here is the summary: Problem: Given an array Arr, a count K, and a budget C. You can distribute C total "capacity" as increases…

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