Amazon Software Engineer interview: math prompt and interactive implementation

I began with two practical programming questions that felt more like testing how I translate an idea into working code than trick problems. The first was straightforward math. The second was interactive: I had to work out what the interviewer wanted and implement several functions to reach the final behavior.

The second question made the process difficult because it required more back-and-forth thinking than finding one formula. I did not get an offer, but I left feeling that the assessment cared about execution and clarity rather than brute-force coding alone.

Location: United States. Overall feedback: positive. Offer status: no offer.