I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Aug 2022
Interview
one telephone interview and one 5-hours on-site interview, the on-site interview includes 5 rounds, each being accessed by different people in different aspect. One is about machine breadth, one is about my research (machine learning depth), one is a coding test, one is related to Amazon ads product and final one is assessed by a bar raiser
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write code to rank imdb films
question relate to invent and simplify and ownership
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
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.
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.