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If Amazon wants to send email to potential customers, how to model this problem? What features to use? Which metrics to evaluate? Which metrics (recall/precision) is more important? DL: - Describe the basic ANN. - What's the benefit of ReLU?
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 7, 2022

If Amazon wants to send email to potential customers, how to model this problem? What features to use? Which metrics to evaluate? Which metrics (recall/precision) is more important? DL: - Describe the basic ANN. - What's the benefit of ReLU?

They have asked various basic questions from machine learning and Deep learning , Recommendation Systems relevant. They also asked two design various models from Recommendation Systems. One round was online coding from basic data structures.
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 6, 2020

They have asked various basic questions from machine learning and Deep learning , Recommendation Systems relevant. They also asked two design various models from Recommendation Systems. One round was online coding from basic data structures.

The technical screening involved some leetcode style problems and general problem solving + ML questions. The round table was a mix of behavioral questions, statistics, ML, and at least 1 more instance of leetcode problems. Question difficulties ranged from easy, like "how to address in the dataset", to average difficulty questions like "explain the differences between and another" or "can you describe how works.
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Senior Applied Scientist

Interviewed at iHerb

3.8
Aug 12, 2023

The technical screening involved some leetcode style problems and general problem solving + ML questions. The round table was a mix of behavioral questions, statistics, ML, and at least 1 more instance of leetcode problems. Question difficulties ranged from easy, like "how to address in the dataset", to average difficulty questions like "explain the differences between and another" or "can you describe how works.

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