The recruiter asked about my background in machine learning and why I am want to switch from academia (currently finalizing my PhD thesis) to the industry. Particularly, why at Amazon.
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Machine learning, coding and behavior questions.
Describe an experience of you cooperating with your colleagues to solve a difficult challenging problem.
Breadth - generative models, loss functions, tokenizers, LLMs, convolutions, residuals Depth - my research, applications and relation to other fields Math - implement SGD for a problem (derive gradients, update, momentum etc.). Derive closed-form solution to this problem.
Describe some criterion for model selection? Why is dimension reduction important?
You could be asked to describe one of your previous projects, answer behavioral questions, and implement an algorithm from scratch.
basic linear regression transformer attention
I was shown five different materials and asked to talk about their physical make-up and mechanical properties.
How would you go about evaluating whether an experiment related to new type of promotional emails performed well or not?
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