I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2021
Interview
ML quiz, DSA coding and background experience and lastly behavioral with alignment of 14 leadership principles. It was fun at the same time daunting as the ML quiz was more difficult to navigate with deep questions regarding SVM and batched training.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind of different loss functions do you know. How do you measure performance of computer vision models. Design a AWS Distributed system to do sharding of datasets and
The phone screen was straightforward, starting with some basic algorithm questions. After a few minutes of discussing my background, we dove into a coding challenge about finding two numbers that sum to a target. I enjoyed explaining both the brute-force method and the optimized hash map approach. The wild part was that I had practiced a similar problem on PracHub just a few days earlier, so it felt familiar. Following this, there was a technical round focused on machine learning concepts, which went smoothly before I received a written offer. Overall, a positive and engaging experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, find two numbers that sum to a target value. Start with a brute-force O(n^2) approach, then optimize using a hash map to O(n). Walk through edge cases (duplicates, negative numbers, no valid pair) and discuss the space-time tradeoff.
The interview process was smooth, and the interviewer was professional and friendly. It was online and took about 35 minutes. The recruiter will give you some guidelines on how to prepare.
Only had first round, a recruiter reached out to me as I had applied for another role. the total time to interview was 2 weeks. One recruiter interview and then with the hiring manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Low level system design about designing a ranking system based on the number of sales of a product as well as taking into consideration the time complexity. had to do some in O(logn)