I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Bellevue, WA) in Jan 2024
Interview
The interviewer firstly told me to introduce myself and my research area, then asked me a technical question, finally he asked me a BQ question. The time took around 50 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical question: Four dices at beginning. Throw them at each round and remove the one as long as 6 is obtained. How many rounds it take to remove all dices ?
Phone screen interview
Then onsite interviews: 5 interviews two on coding and three on science and a tech talk
You choose a topic for the presentation
The science interviews are: one on science depth, one on science breath and one on science applications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on optimizers; comparing gradient decent, adam optimizer etc
Applied for Amazon AGI. After first round, it will go into full round of multiple interviews. Lots of modern LLM training technic questions. There are still some behavioral questions, but less than general Amazon roles.
Interviewed with 1 phone screen, 1 coding, 2 ml design and 2 lp rounds. Most questions were non-leetcode questions more related to day to day ml implementations. The questions were very practical.