I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Mar 2016
Interview
It was a first-round phone interview. I applied the job online and waited for about 2 weeks. A recruiter arranged the by giving me a table to fill my free time slots in the next 3 weeks and arranged my interview by the nearest time slot, which indicates that if you want more time to prepare you can simply say you are not free in the first one or two weeks.
There was no general questions in the interview. The interviewer directly asked what I'm studying and relevant questions about speech technology, which are listed below.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) how ASR works in general and related project details
2) how speech synthesis works
3) general ML questions like generative v.s. discriminative
4) good projects you remember in details
Looking back, I'm relieved I declined the offer, despite the intense experience. The interview process felt overwhelming, starting with some tough core ML concepts before diving into the LLM fundamentals. During the technical round, I recognized a tokenization question from a PracHub session I had done just a week before. It felt like a small win in an otherwise challenging interview. Ultimately, the pressure and expectations were high, but I felt it wasn't the right fit for me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
LLM fundamentals: tokenization design and KL-regularized SFT
There are three rounds in total. The process begins with a coding round, followed by the main interview loop, where you will meet the team and discuss technical skills, experience, and fit.
First round is fun, second round, which is also the final round involved 5 sessions, with different focus. For some sessions, not be able to present my story completely, time was tight, and interviewers were rushing.