I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2024
Interview
I got two rounds of interviews. Both round include very similar structures: 30min research experience + 20min coding + 5min leadership principals + 5min casual chatting.
For me, the research experience part is the most critical. You can imagine you need to do a job talk without using slides. Make sure let the audiences understand what you were done is the first priority.
The coding part for both rounds are pretty easy. I believe Leetcode easy-medium levels? I don't have too much experience in practicing leetcode, so may be the estimated level is incorrect.
The behavior part is pretty hard for me. If you don't have any behavior interview experiences as me, try to find some FAQs from the internet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you will be a tech lead to develop an LLM, which architecture you will choose? (i.e., decoder-only or encoder-decoder) and why?
It was very good. Although i failed the interview. There are two rounds for the interview, with two people from two teams. But i didnt get the offer since i could not answer the open problem
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LP questions. And 30 mins later is all about technical questions
There are two applied science manager. I am applying an internship for machine learning and computer vision. They will ask about amazon leadership principals. Besides, they ask about my own project and some ML algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you ever have a tight timeline to finish some tasks? How did you finish it?