I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I just got the interview through a phone call. I talked with their HR staff. I sent my CV before the interview, and I describe my previous working experiences, like the project I did, the programing language I used, and etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your working experience ? And, what language do you use?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Aug 2020
Interview
AWS recruiter reached out 7 days after applying to set up an introductory call which was followed up with a HackerRank assessment shortly thereafter (finished first question, but not second). Moved onto a phone screen which I did not pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HackerRank assessment included a variation of Leetcode's Shortest Path to Get Food problem
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2021
Interview
Interview was an initial phone screen conducted on Amazon chime (basically a chatroom, no video or screenshare) and Livecode:
15 minutes behavioral
15 minutes machine learning fundamentals
~25 minutes coding question
5 minutes at the end to ask questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions were heavily oriented towards the Amazon leadership qualities.
> Name a time you were innovative
> Name a time you delivered a simple solution to a complex problem.
Follow up questions included how to quantify the level of success in projects brought up.
Machine learning fundamentals:
> How to deal with a troublesome dataset (interpretation open ended so think data cleaning, etc.)
> How to deal with misrepresentative training data
(imbalanced dataset, overfitting, explain how L1/L2 regularization work at an optimization level)
> How to deal with a large dataset where only a few examples are labeled (semi-supervised learning)
Coding question was: https://leetcode.com/problems/find-original-array-from-doubled-array/