I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2024
Interview
This is the single worst interview experience. 1 phone screen, 2 coding, 1 design, 2 very random out of nowhere rounds, 1 presentation. got rescheduled 3 times, 1 no show, interviewers disrespectful.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Nov 2024
Interview
I had 1 phone interview doing a medium leetcode problem. After this I did a virtual onsite interview. This took about 7 hours from start to end. I had to give a job talk on my research and had several rounds of 1-on-1 interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a project that you took initiative of.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2025
Interview
I had a mixed feeling after the interview itself that they wont pass me to next. I only had a phone screening, where HR said to only prepare for Leetcode/coding, but the interviewer was all over the projects I did, ML/DL, probability related easy coding question, but nothing related to data structure or algos, so doing leetcode 150 was also like a waste. The interveiwer was very specific about the partoicular word he wish to hear and nothing like other factors which can effect the final outcome of model. I asked him to share the screen and show my paper to explain it better, but he refused to share screen saying that in this part we usually dont allow candidated to share screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project discussion, why not chosed some specific baselines which were naive, and philosophical questions like why the world is moving away from CNN or VAE or those architectures and coming to transformers like ViT, Catastrophic fogetting happens only due to LR in NN, which is a partial truth, Given PDF and RV, draw some specific number of points from it with a given list of probabilities, ROC-AUC, Evaluation metrics, Clustering algos, classical genAI algos, Dont quote anything mathematically but theoretically