I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2019
Interview
HR reached out by email, after that two round of technical interviews set up at one time. No behavior questions about the Amazon 14 leaderships. First call from a hiring manager, all the questions are about easy machine learning like regression, model selection and data manipulation. Second call from an applied scientist, machine learning question plus simple ab test. Whole process last for two weeks.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Had a phone screen with a group leader. He was quite awkward and not really well-spoken. He didn't care about brain teasers that he was supposed to ask me and let me do the assignment later and submit it to him. He mostly asked about my resume points and wanted to see if I can come up with ways to use my particular expertise for Amazon. The day after the phone screen I was invited to an on-site, but that invitation was withdrawn due to my visa situation (they couldn't wait for me to get a visa).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a generator of unbiased bernoulli numbers (0 or 1 with p=0.5), create a biased bernoulli trial generator (generate 0 or 1 with the specified 0 < p < 1)
Two round back-to-back phone interview, 45 mins each. The first round is general coding. The second round is a computer vision coding problem. The interview process is professional and fast.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to extract all connected areas in a binary image?