J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en avr. 2025
Entretien
The interview process began with a technical phone screen with the hiring manager. We mostly dived deep into one of my projects on my resume and ended with a Leetcode (medium) question on DP from Blind 150. Then I had 6 rounds of interviews for the virtual on-site. Since I am a PhD student, one of the rounds was a tech talk followed by Q&A, and the other was the Bar Raiser, which only focused on Leadership Principles. All other rounds were technical, focusing on science breadth, depth, and coding. You should know your fundamentals for different ML algorithms, Transformers, and current GenAI techniques (pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, prompting, etc.)
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Explain attention mechanism in Transformers. How is BERT different from GPT? Differences between DPO and RLHF
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en juin 2026
Entretien
This interview was for the Applied Scientist Position at Amazon. It was a Science breadth/Depth as well as 1 easy LC problem. After that did a full loop interview. 1 Science ML Breadth, 1 Science Depth, 1 Sys Design (Team-specific), 1 coding round and 1 Bar Raiser
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Bias-Variance tradeoffs. Bagging Vs boosting. Modeling details in my project. Basic Statistical Questions. DSA: String compression problem.
1 HR round
4 technical interviews (coding+depth+breadth) of Machine Learning.
1 round to go into depth of my own projects.
1 round on general data science questions + system design (model a pipeline end-to-end for translating one set of multimodal objects to another language)
Candidature
J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Santa Monica, CA)
Entretien
Two easy Leetcode problems, some ML coding problems and a lot of Leadership Principles talk. Overall average experience. A lot of middle managers not much room to innovate or take risks. Like working for the DMV