I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2020
Interview
Firstly the shortlisting was done through a coding + aptitude round, after which the interviews took place. The interview was in two rounds. The first round was based on competitive coding problems. The second round was more towards Resume and past internship experiences and projects. The interviews were 45 minutes each.
I was asked basic knowledge in deep learning and machine learning. Also had time of explaining my research. discussed how I can apply my research to the current project. Transformer architecture, bias-var tradeoff, use of positional encoding, long-term dependencies.
HackerRank assessment with solid, fair questions. Communication with the recruiting team was clear and professional throughout the process. I was invited to two additional interviews, one focused on research depth and the other on coding skills.
One phone screen on LeetCode-style medium coding question plus behavioral questions. One loop of three back to back interviews including one round of coding, two rounds of research plus behavioral questions.
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