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ML questions cover topics such as data imbalance, collinearity, feature selection, linear regression, logistic regression, L1/L2 norm regularization; ML application question -- how would you design a recommendation system that recommend books to users;
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 3, 2022

ML questions cover topics such as data imbalance, collinearity, feature selection, linear regression, logistic regression, L1/L2 norm regularization; ML application question -- how would you design a recommendation system that recommend books to users;

Product Sense Question - How do you tag an incoming unknown product with amazon catalogs (such as toys, books, electronics). Provided description and a couple of pics about of the product Programming Question - Iterating through a list of tuples and performing some algorithm on the tuple values (simple one).
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 26, 2021

Product Sense Question - How do you tag an incoming unknown product with amazon catalogs (such as toys, books, electronics). Provided description and a couple of pics about of the product Programming Question - Iterating through a list of tuples and performing some algorithm on the tuple values (simple one).

First round: - phone/video interview with one person. - Asked the typical DS interview questions (overfitting/cross validation), talked about my ML experiences. - Asked a basic coding question: given an animal, print out the noise it makes. Basic things like polymorphism/inheritance, briefly touched on string similarity Second round in person (5 interviews): - Lots of leadership principle/behavioral questions - One coding interview. Given a database of book titles and number of copies sold, how do you identify the top N most-sold books. Basic algorithm/data structures of things like priority queues/heaps, space-time complexity analysis, live-coding. Even if you miss the correct data structure, they provide some hints along the way so you can complete the problem - Multiple DS interviews, from things like typical DS interview questions and your ML experience, to an applied DS question (deduplicating transactions, how would you solve this problem, how would you build/train/score a model, how would you scale it)
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Applied Scientist II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 25, 2021

First round: - phone/video interview with one person. - Asked the typical DS interview questions (overfitting/cross validation), talked about my ML experiences. - Asked a basic coding question: given an animal, print out the noise it makes. Basic things like polymorphism/inheritance, briefly touched on string similarity Second round in person (5 interviews): - Lots of leadership principle/behavioral questions - One coding interview. Given a database of book titles and number of copies sold, how do you identify the top N most-sold books. Basic algorithm/data structures of things like priority queues/heaps, space-time complexity analysis, live-coding. Even if you miss the correct data structure, they provide some hints along the way so you can complete the problem - Multiple DS interviews, from things like typical DS interview questions and your ML experience, to an applied DS question (deduplicating transactions, how would you solve this problem, how would you build/train/score a model, how would you scale it)

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