I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Phone interviews: typical, not too difficult. For on-site interviews was supposed to get several items helpful for preparation, but got them only couple days before the interviews. Never got description of a the job for which I was interviewed, and for which Amazon recruiters had found me through LinkedIn. Interviews went fine, as far as I can tell, but the response was negative.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Mar 2016
Interview
It was a first-round phone interview. I applied the job online and waited for about 2 weeks. A recruiter arranged the by giving me a table to fill my free time slots in the next 3 weeks and arranged my interview by the nearest time slot, which indicates that if you want more time to prepare you can simply say you are not free in the first one or two weeks.
There was no general questions in the interview. The interviewer directly asked what I'm studying and relevant questions about speech technology, which are listed below.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) how ASR works in general and related project details
2) how speech synthesis works
3) general ML questions like generative v.s. discriminative
4) good projects you remember in details
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2015
Interview
Awful interview. The person interview did not speak English very well. I do not know how he will communicate with me at the job because he was apparently the team leader.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which machine learning algorithms/techniques are you familiar with?
What is k-mean?
Have you dealt with time series data?