The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Redwood City, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
The recruiters at Amazon are the worst I came across.They insist on scheduling phone interviews and then ghost out without an explanation. Both Scout and Prime air recruiters contacted me several times. Some ghosted out after I said ok let’s talk, one said my CV is not relevant after telling me I’m a great fit for the role, which I was.Get it together!
Phone screen interview
Then onsite interviews: 5 interviews two on coding and three on science and a tech talk
You choose a topic for the presentation
The science interviews are: one on science depth, one on science breath and one on science applications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on optimizers; comparing gradient decent, adam optimizer etc
Applied for Amazon AGI. After first round, it will go into full round of multiple interviews. Lots of modern LLM training technic questions. There are still some behavioral questions, but less than general Amazon roles.
Interviewed with 1 phone screen, 1 coding, 2 ml design and 2 lp rounds. Most questions were non-leetcode questions more related to day to day ml implementations. The questions were very practical.