I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokyo) in Jul 2022
Interview
I submitted the application via Amazon's job site. Later the HR contacted me via email and scheduled 1 phone interview. Unfortunately I failed in phone interview so I cannot provide more information.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If Amazon wants to send email to potential customers, how to model this problem? What features to use? Which metrics to evaluate? Which metrics (recall/precision) is more important?
DL:
- Describe the basic ANN.
- What's the benefit of ReLU?
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.