I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Got a call from recruiter and she set up two phone screens, one was a data scientist within the team and second one was with someone external. Both had PhDs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first interviewer spend maximum time on random forest algorithm and went into great detail. from bagging and boosting to gradient boosting techniques. He also spent quite some time with multiple linear regression problems. In the end there was one algorithm question.
The second interviewer asked about classification for imbalanced data sets and response rate of models. In the end there were few SQL questions. Both interviewers were super helpful and walked through their questions. From my experience i think they really want the candidate to succeed.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Easy two phone interviews. There are coding and machine learning questions. Most of them cover pretty fundamental concepts in coding and machine learning so you should be able to answer them pretty well.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Overall easy interview. Not sure what went wrong.
The interview started with Resume/project discussion. Then I was asked a few ML questions on overfitting and underfitting. Later, discussed a use case and design of image matching algorithm. Finally, reverse LinkedList coding question.
Answered all the questions, for coding took O(n) space for the first solution and later verbally explained O(1) improvement.
Not even a courtesy of leaving feedback. Gah!