I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2023
Interview
Applied online and then was contacted by the recruiter. The first step was online assessment (OA). After OA immediately got the invitation for a phone interview. After the phone interview got the offer. The full process (from invitation for OA - offer) took 17 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OA had one LC easy and medium question Behavioral Questions 1. How should I handover a project? 2. What do I do for conflict resolution? 3. How do i work in uncharted territory?
I was asked basic knowledge in deep learning and machine learning. Also had time of explaining my research. discussed how I can apply my research to the current project. Transformer architecture, bias-var tradeoff, use of positional encoding, long-term dependencies.
HackerRank assessment with solid, fair questions. Communication with the recruiting team was clear and professional throughout the process. I was invited to two additional interviews, one focused on research depth and the other on coding skills.
One phone screen on LeetCode-style medium coding question plus behavioral questions. One loop of three back to back interviews including one round of coding, two rounds of research plus behavioral questions.