I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
They contacted me with detailed information, job descriptions and requirements. They then arranged the interview time with several email exchanges. Overal, the process was very smooth and easy going. Happy to had such a great experience with high tech company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview questions were some behavioral ones, then some fundamental questions about machine learning concepts and definition of different algorithms, how to select one method over another one considering the data. The next phase was coding interview with two questions, some tricky questions also asked.
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)
HR call followed by a 1-hour coding interview with a team member. Then, a loop consisting of 5 rounds: 2 LeetCode-style coding interviews, 2 system design interviews, and 1 behavioral interview
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Question 1
LeetCode questions are at the easy/medium level. System design is a regular task about designing ML algorithms
