6 hour onsite interview; they drill you with almost trivia-style questions, i.e. name the five assumptions of linear regression. Not many big picture sort of questions as seen for similar roles at other companies.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jul 2021
Interview
A recruiter reached out about a few opportunities. I was interested in one of the opportunities, so the recruiter set up an interview with the Research Lead.
I had an initial call with the recruiter, where he told me about the position and explained what the interview process would look like. Unfortunately, the actual interview was NOTHING like the recruited said. The interview was literally 60 minutes of behavioral questions, with no time left at the end for me to ask questions.
I received an email the next say stating that I didn't get the job and it was against Amazon policy to tell me why.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2018
Interview
Referred by Hiring Manager. Interviewed by a data scientist in Amazon. Basic questions regarding the machine learning project on the resume. Several behavior questions to test if you're a match according to Amazon's famous 14 principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
How to calculate F1 score.
How would you improve this project if you had more time?