Amazon Applied Scientist Interview Interview Experiences

1. Describe what would happen if we change the loss function for classification problem from Cross entropy to MSE 2. Explain what would happen if Wq = Wk = Wv in a transformer

5 interviews - 2 coding, 1 ML breath, 1 ML depth, 1 ML application. A lot of behavioral questions (more than half of each interview). application interview was fair - focused on se

Initial call from recruiter and then technical screening. The recruiter gave me an overview of the process, details of the job, and some suggestions on the interview. The technical

phone screening - questions about research and ML foundations. onsite - one coding, one ML design, one HM chat, one pure behavioral. ML design is about video recommender, coding is

I have five interview rounds in total. The first round is HR call. The second round is about project overview. Then two coding rounds and the final round is virtual on-site

tech interview completely different from hr's email. interview prep email specifically outlines the structure and type of questions, but ended up having 0 overlap in the actual int

The hiring manager's interview was in horrible conditions. His network was not stable, and he had to reboot twice during the interview. I couldn't hear half of what he said. So str