I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jul 2021
Interview
A recruiter reached out about a few opportunities. I was interested in one of the opportunities, so the recruiter set up an interview with the Research Lead.
I had an initial call with the recruiter, where he told me about the position and explained what the interview process would look like. Unfortunately, the actual interview was NOTHING like the recruited said. The interview was literally 60 minutes of behavioral questions, with no time left at the end for me to ask questions.
I received an email the next say stating that I didn't get the job and it was against Amazon policy to tell me why.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2018
Interview
Referred by Hiring Manager. Interviewed by a data scientist in Amazon. Basic questions regarding the machine learning project on the resume. Several behavior questions to test if you're a match according to Amazon's famous 14 principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
How to calculate F1 score.
How would you improve this project if you had more time?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Pretty bad experiences. Talked to the recruiter and then got into the next round. I gave the coordinator 5+ days of availability and she ended up scheduling a time that’s not on the availability list when I had stand up meetings. Very disrespectful. Then 3 weeks later, another HR took over and schedule another time but didn’t send me the calendar invitation. Wow. Then another 1-2 weeks later she sent me the invitation for next day.
I had technical interviews with a data scientist. It went overtime with too many unnecessary questions. The interviewer asked me a lot of questions she admitted she didn’t know either. Interviewers in Amazon are not properly trained to interview people. Don’t waste time with them and they are pretty bad employer anyways. I only interviewed for visa purposes.