I got a phone screening by a hiring manager, which included the following three types of questions:
- Brief introduction (e.g., "why do you want to change jobs?")
- Data science question (e.g., "create a classifier for a task where ...")
- Simple coding question (it is like a LC-easy)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- What is the motivation to apply for this position?
- What is the most difficult point in your research?
I had a positive experience with encouragement and hints when stuck. The focus of the interview is on basic concepts and slowly moving onto advanced topics. Due to covid, all the interviews are online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML questions, Computer Vision Questions, Coding focus on Data Structures with thoughts on dynamic programming.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Edimburgo, Escocia) in May 2021
Interview
First homework: regression on house pricing on uk house sales dataset. Second interview: describe a project you worked on w.r.t. ML and related questions. ML basics questions. Coding challenge and behavioural interview as last.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe Logistic Regression, how it works in a specific use case described (vategorical features encoding, dimensionality reduction, feature selection). Optimization of the model: minimize - log likelihood (cross entropy), how it works (gd).