I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
The interview consists of two main parts. The first part involves behavioral questions and is expected to take approximately 25 minutes. The second part focuses on fundamental machine-learning concepts. NA NA NANA
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Apr 2023
Interview
The position seemed to be super ML-specific, the interviewer asked what I knew about ML and after I started articulating my understanding from supervised learning, and unsupervised learning to reinforcement learning, he started to dig deeper into my knowledge. He tried to make me speak until the point I did not feel comfortable about certain concept in ML.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the process of PCA, why is the eigenvector calculated and what is it for?
What's your understanding of Kmeans, what is the process of it?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
Interview
First step was online assessment with two leetcode style questions but they weren't directly from leetcode but a variation of those problems. Doing easy-medium level should be fine (focus on solving quickly).
The next round was a 1 hour phone interview with an applied scientist on the team with questions around projects completed, ML & DL concepts, and 1 coding question (easy level).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is batch normalization? How do you add regularization and why? Explain how bag of words / word2vec work?