I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2023
Interview
Very communicative during the process. I got consistent emails telling me what to expect and when interviews would occur. Responses were always prompt. There are supposed to be three steps. Two coding interviews then the 5 hour "on-site" interview.
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.