Applied Scientist Interview Questions

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1) A machine learning take home assignment . It was a prediction problem using simplest method. 2) Phone Interview with ML Scientist - Basic questions in ML 3) Onsite - 5 rounds of interview Every round focuses on Behavioural questions. Amazon breathes these principals. 1) Presentation - about a project you recently worked on (be prepared to get grilled) 2) Algo and DS - Not what you typically expect. It was more of a design problem 3) ML Application - About a Amazon product design using ML 4) ML breadth - Questions to test on your ML expertise 5) ML coding - Focus is more on functional programming and less on ML.
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 4, 2021

1) A machine learning take home assignment . It was a prediction problem using simplest method. 2) Phone Interview with ML Scientist - Basic questions in ML 3) Onsite - 5 rounds of interview Every round focuses on Behavioural questions. Amazon breathes these principals. 1) Presentation - about a project you recently worked on (be prepared to get grilled) 2) Algo and DS - Not what you typically expect. It was more of a design problem 3) ML Application - About a Amazon product design using ML 4) ML breadth - Questions to test on your ML expertise 5) ML coding - Focus is more on functional programming and less on ML.

What ML algorithms do you know? Follow up questions asked me to describe some of the algorithms I had listed, then went into details (what is the loss function, why is LSTM better than RNN) Coding Questions: Similar to easy/medium LeetCode questions.
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 14, 2018

What ML algorithms do you know? Follow up questions asked me to describe some of the algorithms I had listed, then went into details (what is the loss function, why is LSTM better than RNN) Coding Questions: Similar to easy/medium LeetCode questions.

- Tell me what has been your greatest scientific contribution - Describe to me Dijkstra's algorithm - Formulate mathematically a problem where you have to schedule X tracks to deliver Y packets to Z cities under A, B, C constraints
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Applied Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 8, 2023

- Tell me what has been your greatest scientific contribution - Describe to me Dijkstra's algorithm - Formulate mathematically a problem where you have to schedule X tracks to deliver Y packets to Z cities under A, B, C constraints

In the 1st round I was given a standard stack based question. The question was to find the next rgeatest element in an array along with one other question. In the 2nd round, I was asked about random forest classifiers and RNNs.
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Applied Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jul 16, 2023

In the 1st round I was given a standard stack based question. The question was to find the next rgeatest element in an array along with one other question. In the 2nd round, I was asked about random forest classifiers and RNNs.

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