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Unexpected question was to do a demo training session. The surprise was that this was supposed to be for a senior L&D posistion and delivery is not what Sr L&D people do on a daily basis. I could understand if I was interviewing for a Trainer position. The other challenge was that I was not given a topic, so it was clear what audience to prepare for. I was just assigned to do a hour training session in Japanese. The audience was difficult, one had a "go ahead and wow me" attitude, while 2 were polite participants. The other particpiant was obviously uninterested and brought his laptop to the demo session and was doing what could only assume was his own work. I was later told he was pinch hitting for another person who could not attend and did not understand Japanese.
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Head of Learning and Development

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jul 20, 2012

Unexpected question was to do a demo training session. The surprise was that this was supposed to be for a senior L&D posistion and delivery is not what Sr L&D people do on a daily basis. I could understand if I was interviewing for a Trainer position. The other challenge was that I was not given a topic, so it was clear what audience to prepare for. I was just assigned to do a hour training session in Japanese. The audience was difficult, one had a "go ahead and wow me" attitude, while 2 were polite participants. The other particpiant was obviously uninterested and brought his laptop to the demo session and was doing what could only assume was his own work. I was later told he was pinch hitting for another person who could not attend and did not understand Japanese.

The interviews mostly focused on past systems experience. They had me describe the architecture of a couple systems I'd previously built, and then dug into the details, tradeoffs, and lessons learned for a long time. Additionally there were a couple of short whiteboarding questions, one that was all about probability and another that focused on algorithm design. It seemed like the most important part of these was actually thinking through them, asking good questions along the way, and collaborating with the interviewer.
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Head of Machine Learning

Interviewed at Squelch

4.9★
Jan 21, 2019

The interviews mostly focused on past systems experience. They had me describe the architecture of a couple systems I'd previously built, and then dug into the details, tradeoffs, and lessons learned for a long time. Additionally there were a couple of short whiteboarding questions, one that was all about probability and another that focused on algorithm design. It seemed like the most important part of these was actually thinking through them, asking good questions along the way, and collaborating with the interviewer.

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