I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, South West England, England) in Nov 2020
Interview
Applied online. Received email 2 weeks later to schedule the phone interview. Dedicated recruiter within Amazon was very helpful. During phone interview intreraction with interviewer was very pleasant, but there role was not a match for my background.
The interviewee called me, and asked me what machine learning models I know. I told her like every model that I have heard of and explained quite well (in my idea).
Then she asked a simple programming language just to have asked something.
I suspected she is not serious about it. My guess was correct and after a day or two I received a rejection email with no explanation of what was wrong!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What is the difference between bagging and boosting?
Q: Explain K-means.
etc.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
First round with a senior applied scientist, had a very good impression on him since the stuff we did are similar.
Failed at the final Virtual Onsite round, the feedback said that I messed up most of the coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round1: Mostly my project experience and research.
VO: two coding, two machine learning expertise, one system design