I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2020
Interview
Two rounds of interview. First was a coding round - dynamic programming. Second round was on machine learning depth and breadth. Very knowledgeable interviewers in both rounds, helped with any doubts along the way
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Previous projects, ML depth and breadth questions.
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
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.
Difficult interview
Application
I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
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.