I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2019
Interview
There are in total Six rounds of Interview. First two rounds took place during campus placement for initial level selection and next four rounds are onsite interview and each of this rounds are nearly one hour duration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They have asked various basic questions from machine learning and Deep learning , Recommendation Systems relevant. They also asked two design various models from Recommendation Systems. One round was online coding from basic data structures.
Phone screen interview
Then onsite interviews: 5 interviews two on coding and three on science and a tech talk
You choose a topic for the presentation
The science interviews are: one on science depth, one on science breath and one on science applications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on optimizers; comparing gradient decent, adam optimizer etc
Applied for Amazon AGI. After first round, it will go into full round of multiple interviews. Lots of modern LLM training technic questions. There are still some behavioral questions, but less than general Amazon roles.
Interviewed with 1 phone screen, 1 coding, 2 ml design and 2 lp rounds. Most questions were non-leetcode questions more related to day to day ml implementations. The questions were very practical.