Turn an Unlikely Project Around and Recover When AI Coding Falls Short
Company: Amazon
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Behavioral & Leadership
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Prepare two senior engineering stories: turning an apparently infeasible project into a credible result, and recovering when an AI coding tool produced the wrong behavior. Focus on evidence, negotiated constraints, deterministic diagnosis, manual judgment, safety checks, measurable results, and better guardrails.
