I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra) in Sep 2023
Interview
- first screening call
- 3 leadership principles interviews
- 2 technical interviews (SQL , data Viz)
- 1 interview with hiring manager
hiring process was overall positive. the recruiters were very helpful in providing a lot of context on what the interview is about
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain Overfitting, when does it happen? how can you avoid it
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2022
Interview
In the first round, several BQs plus Python coding, where the difficulty of the coding part is Easy-Medium level on Leetcode. In the second round, several BQs again plus a bunch of stats knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the Bayesian Theorem? Please describe it.
frist round: 1 interview (behavioral, SQL/Python)
final round: 5 interviews (behavioral, SQL/Python, technical).
Recruiters will give you details about the content and format of the interviews which can help you prepare.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral Questions:
Tell me about a time when...
- ... you went above and beyond for a customer.
- ... you saw an issue that your team could face and *proactively* took action to mitigate it.
- ... you had to meet a tight deadline.
- ... you realized you did not have the skills needed to do the job.
- ... solved a complex problem in a simple way.
Technical Questions
- Tell me about a project you worked on and explain it to me in detail (technical work such as ML project, simulation project, etc)
- Say you want to predict how many units of an item you want to stock in a grocery store each day for the next week. How would you go about doing that?
- A/B testing of green vs yellow color for the buy button. How would you design this experiment?
- What is random about a random forest?
- How would you assess a model's performance on a dataset with unbalanced target classes?