Online Assessment

Two Online Assessment Questions on Calorie-Maximizing Jumps and Password Similarity

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Sep 2025

Question 1: Problem description: A user is doing jump exercises using an Amazon fitness tracker. There are n blocks of different heights (height[i] is the height of the i-th block). The user starts from the ground (height 0) and must jump to every block exactly once, with the goal of maximizing calories burned. The calories burned jumping from block i to block j are calculated as (height[i] - hei…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.